B. Sc.I Paper- I Semester -I Animal Diversity- I

B. Sc.I Semester -I (CBCS) 

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Punyashlok Ahilyadevi Holkar Solapur University, Solapur

SEMESTER – I

PAPER I: Animal Diversity- I

Unit 1: Kingdom Protista

General characters and classification up to classes; locomotory organelle and locomotion in

protozoa ,nutrition in protozoa.

Unit 2: Phylum Porifera

General characters and classification up to classes; canal system in Sycon

Unit 3: Phylum Cnidaria

General characters and classification up to classes; polymorphism in hydrozoa

Unit 4: Phylum Platyhelminthes

General characters and classification up to classes; life history of Taenia solium

Unit 5: Phylum Nemathelminthes

General characters and classification up to classes; life history of Ascaris lumbricoides and

its parasitic adaptations

Unit 6: Phylum Annelida

General characters and classification up to classes; metamerism in annelid, economic

importance of annelids with reference to earthworm and leech

Unit 7: Phylum Arthropoda

General characters and classification up to classes; vision in arthropoda, metamorphosis in

insects, the economic importance of insects.

Unit 8: Phylum Mollusca

General characters and classification up to classes; torsion in gastropods. Economic importance of molluscs

Unit 9: Phylum Echinodermata

General characters and classification up to classes; water-vascular system in Asteroidea