Syllabus
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Course Code: M-Z 207 Course Name: Practical (Based on Papers M-Z 201 & M- Z 202) |
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| MODULE NO / UNIT | COURSE SYLLABUS CONTENTS OF MODULE | NOTES |
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| 1 | Course Contents: 1. Study of various components of pond and grassland ecosystem. |
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| 2 | 2. Determination of Water quality characteristics viz: Dissolved oxygen, pH, free carbon dioxide, salinity, transparency, alkalinity and hardness. | |
| 3 | 3. Methods of population density measurements. | |
| 4 | 4. Estimation of biodiversity indices. | |
| 5 | 5. Field Visit to Aquatic, Forest and other ecosystems for identification of biota. | |
| 6 | 6. Preparation of tissues for microtomy and demonstration of cryo techniques | |
| 7 | 7. Histochemistry: Methods of fixation of different tissues. | |
| 8 | 8. Histochemical test: (a) Haemotoxylin-eosin (b) Toluidine Blue (c) Sudan Block-B (d) Mercury bromophenol blue (e) Methyl green-pyronin-Y (f) Periodic acid Schiff’s (g) Acid phosphatase (h) Alkaline phosphatase |
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| 9 | 9. Demonstration of live gametes and their staining procedure. | |
| 10 | 10. Determination of optimum pH, temperature and concentration for optimum activityof salivary amylase, | |
| 11 | To demonstrate that the optimum activity of trypsin enzyme is pH temperaturedependent. | |
| 12 | 12. Qualitative test of vitamins and Quantification of vitamin A and C. | |
| 13 | 13. Total RBC, WBC and Different WBC count | |
| 14 | 14. Estimation of Blood plasma | |
