Protection, Support, and Movement: Protection upto non-muscular movement
1.Miller and Harley. 5th edition. Pp. 350-355.
2. https://biocyclopedia.com/index/general_zoology/invertebrate_integument.php
Practical:
Study of insect chitin, fish scale, amphibian skin, reptilian scales, feathers and mammalian skin.
Course Material
- Protection, Support, and Movement: Protection upto non-muscular movement
- An introduction to animal muscles, muscular system of invertebrates and vertebrates
- Communication I: Nerves upto neuron neuron communication
- Introductionary accounts of resting member potential upto vertebrate nervous system
- The ventral nerve cord and gangila upto automatic nervous system
- Communication II: Senses upto proprioceptors
- Tactile receptors upto mechanoreception
- Hearing and equilibrium in air and water upto taste and vision in vertebrates
- The endocrine system upto mechanism of hormone action
- Hormones of porifera upto echinoderms invertebrates
- Vertebrate endocrine system upto birds endocrine system
- Endocrine system in mammals
- Internal transport and circulatory system in invertebrates upto blood cells and vessels
- Heart and circulatory systems of bony fishes upto lymphatic system
- Immunity upto respiratory surfaces
- Human respiratory system and gas transport
