Week 3- Taxonomic characters: Kinds and weightage, microtaxonomy, taxonomic categories: specific category, infraspecific category, higher categories.
Material
Book: Principles of Systematic Zoology By Mayer & Ashlock (Pages 19-22, 42-48, 159-194)
Course Material
- Week 1- History of taxonomy: systematics, basic terminology of systematic.
- Week 2-Theories of biological classifications
- Week 3- Taxonomic characters: Kinds and weightage, microtaxonomy, taxonomic categories: specific category, infraspecific category, higher categories.
- Week 4- Typological species concept: Nominalistic species concept, biological species concept, Evolutionary species concept.
- Week 5- Kinds of different species, Speciation,Taxonomic procedures, taxonomic collection; their preservation and duration.
- Week 6- Taxonomic keys, different kinds of keys and their merits and demerits.
- Week 7- Systematics publications: International code of zoological nomenclature; its objective, principles, interpretation, application of important rules.
- Week 8- Zoological nomenclature, law of priority and validity of names.
- Mid term Exam After 8 Week
- Week 9- The nature and origin to life: Evidences of evolution (molecular, embryological & paleontological).
- Week 10- Theories of Evolution: Theories to explain the diversity of life - Modern synthetic theory
- Week 11- Factors initiating elementary evolutionary changes (micro-evolution) by changing gene frequencies,mutation pressure, selection pressure, immigration and crossbreeding, genetic drift.
- Week 12- Role of isolation in evolution: Factors of large evolutionary changes (macro/mega evolution) - allometry, orthogenesis, adaptive radiation
- Week 13-Modern concept of Natural Selection: Levels of selection, selection patterns, laboratory and field example regarding action of Natural Selection
- Week 14- Action of Natural Selection leading to convergence, radiation, regression and extinction, Batesian mimicry, Mullerian mimicry
- Week 15-Sexual selection: Darwin’s concept, Fisher’s view, Zahavi’s handicap theory, Recapitulation theory, Trend and rates in evolution.
- Week 16: Importance and applications of systematics: Taxonomy in Animal science, systematics as a profession and its future perspectives.
- Week 17- Presentations
- Final Term Exam
- Chapters 19
- Department Zoology
- Teacher
Dr. Muhammad Khalid Mukhtar
