BPSC Zoology Syllabus 2024

• Comprehensive overview, categorization, and correlation of the different phyla.
• Protozoa: Structure, bionomics, and life cycle analysis of Paramecium, Monocyotis, Trypanosoma, Malarial Parasite, and Leishmania. Protozoa’s locomotion, nutrition, and reproduction.
• Porifera: Reproduction and skeleton of the canal system.
• Coelenterata: Obelia Aurelia’s structure and life cycle; polymorphism in Hydrozoa; coral formation; metagenesis; and the evolutionary relationships between Cinideria and Acnidaria.
• Helminths: Ascaris, Planaria, Fasciola, Taenia, and their life cycles. Helminths and Human Parasitic Adaptation.
• Annelida: Nereis, Coelom and Metamerism, Earthworm and Leech, and Polychaete Life Modes.
• Arthropoda: Cockroach, Scorpion, Paleomon. Crustacea: Larval forms and parasitism Mouth portion in arthropods: eyesight and respiration; in insects: social life and metamorphosis. Why Peripatus is important.
• Mollusca: Cephalopods, Unio Pila, Oyster Culture, and Pearl Formation.
• Echinodermata: affinities, forms, general organization, and larvae.
• The overall structure and personalities of Protochordata, Pisces, Amphibia, Reptilia, Aves, and Mammalia are outlined, along with their ification and relationships.
• Neoteny and regressive transformation.
• An overview of a comparative analysis of the different vertebrate systems.
• Movement of locomotives, Fish migration, and respiration, The Dipnoi structure and affinities.
• The affinities of Urodela and Apoda, their dispersal, and the origin of amphibia are all discussed.
• The genesis of reptiles, adaptive radiation in reptiles, fossil reptiles, Indian snakes—both poisonous and non-poisonous—and snake apparatuses with poison.
• Bird migration, aerial adaption, and the origin of flightless birds.
• Mammal origins, ear ossicles nomenclature, skin and dentition derivatives, distribution of mammals.

• Abiotic elements and their function, biotic factors, and interspecific relationships make up the environment.
• Animal: Ecological successions, population and community organization.
• Concept, elements, basic functioning, energy flow, biogeochemical cycle, food chain, and trophic levels of an ecosystem.
• Adaptation in marine, freshwater, and terrestrial environments.
• Air, water, and land pollution.
• India’s wildlife and its preservation.

The study of ethology

• General overview of diverse animal behavior patterns.
• The part pheromones and hormones play in conduct
• Chronobiology: Tidal rhythms, Seasonal rhythms, and Biological check.
• Behavior is regulated by neuroendocrine processes.
• Techniques for researching animal behavior.
• The study of biostatistics
• Techniques for sampling, frequency distribution, central tendency measurements, correlation and regression, standard deviation, standard error, and standard deviance, as well as chi-square and f-test.

Zoology of the Economy

• Commensalism, parasitism, and the host-parasite connection.
• Helminths, parasitic protozoa, and insects found in domestic animals and humans.
• pest insects in crops and storage goods.
• Beneficial insects.
• Induced breeding and pisciculture methods.

• Cell division, mitosis, spindle and chromosome motions, meiosis, and the structure of the nucleus, plasma membrane mitochondria, golgi bodies, endo, plasmic reticulum, and ribosomes are all covered in the field of cell biology.
• Gene structure and function The Watson-Crick model incorporates DNA replication, genetic code, protein synthesis, cell development, sex determination, and chromosomes.
• Mendelian rules of inheritance, recombinations, multiple alleles, linkage and linkage maps, natural and induced mutations, mutation and evolution, meiosis, Prokaryotes and Eukaryotes: Regulation of Gene Expression; Polyploidy; Chromosome Number and Form; Cytoplasmic Inheritance. Genes and diseases, normal and abnormal karyotypes, biochemical genetics, and aspects of human genetics. Eugenics.
• The origin of life, the development of evolutionary theory, and evolution and systematics Lamarck’s contributions. The origins and characteristics of the organic variety, Darwin and his works, By natural selection, The Hardy-Weinberg law Shadowy and foreboding color imitation, separating out the roles of the mechanisms. Insular fauna: the notion of species and subspecies; international code; principles of ification; nomenclature used in zoology. fossils, the horse, elephant, and camel phylogeny’s outline in the geological cras, The beginnings and development of humanity concepts and hypotheses pertaining to animal dispersion between continents, world’s zoogeographical regions.

• The structure of proteins, lipids, amino acids, carbohydrates, and nucleic acids is covered in biochemistry. Krebs Cycle and Glycolysis, reduction and oxidation, phosphorylation by oxidation, Conserving energy and releasing ATP, Cyclic AMP, Cholesterol, Steroid hormones, and saturated and unsaturated fatty acids kind of enzymes, The way that erythema acts, Immunity, and immunoglobulins, nutrients, and enzymes, The biosynthesis, ification, and actions of hormones.
• Physiology, specifically as it relates to mammal blood’s composition, Human blood types, coagulation, and Transport of carbon dioxide and oxygen Blood globin. The control of breathing, development of urine and the nephron Acid-Base homeostasis and balance, human temperature regulation, axon conduction across synapses, Vision, hearing, and other receptors, neurotransmitters, types of muscles, skeletal muscle ultrastructure, and skeletal muscle contraction mechanism, The function of the intestinal glands, liver pancreas, and salivary glands.
• Embryology: Gametogenesis, fertilization, egg types, cleavage, and the development of Branchiostoma, Frog, and Chick until gastrulation, The Frog and Chick fate maps. Frog Metamorphosis Chick Extra Embryonic Membrane Formation and Destiny Amnion Formation. Mammal placenta types and allantois Placenta’s Role in Mammals: Organizers, Genetic regulation of development and regeneration. organogenesis of vertebrate embryos: heart, kidney, sensory organs, and central nervous system. The implications of aging on humans.