Jkpsc Lecturer Zoology Syllabus and Notes 2025

Syllabus for Lecturer 10+2 Zoology

The Jkpsc zoology Syllabus for 2024 is essential for individuals preparing for papers in zoology.

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I. Cytogenetics and Molecular Biology/Cell and Molecular Biology / Cell Biology and Cytogenetics

A. Structure and Functions of Cell and Cell differentiation:

1. Plasma membrane and cell permeability

2. Nucleus: morphological organization, nucleolus

3. Biochemical composition, structure and types of chromosomes

4. Molecular Biology of Genes

5. The Genetic code and protein biosynthesis

B. Human Cytogenetics/Principles of Human Genetics

1. Biology of cells; effect of radiation on cancer cells and carcinogens

2. Biochemical Mutations; chromosomal anomalies and human disorders

3. Sex determination; history, chromosomal theory

4. Sex linked inheritance; sex linked inheritance in Drosophila and man colour blindness, y-chromosome inheritance

II. Animal Behaviour/An Introductory Course on Ethology

1. Migration, orientation types and Navigation

2. Parental Behaviour- Reproductive Behaviour/Sexual selection

3. Methods of communication

4. Social organisation / Agression and its type

   (a) Territoriality, (b) Hierarchy (c) Completion

5. Learning behaviour and types of learning

   (i) Habituation

   (ii) Classical conditioning

   (iii) Instrumental conditioning 

   (iv) Imprinting

III. Systematics and Evolution

1. Taxonomic collections, characters and methods of identification

2. Theories of biological classification

3. Sympatric: allopatric and Parapatric species

4. Species concept and type concept

5. Interspecific categories., Variations and their importance

6. Isolation and speciation

7. Evolution of man

IV. Environmental Biology /Ecology and Environment Biology

1. Ecosystem study:

   a) Concept

   b) Circulation of water in Ecosystem/hydrological cycles

   c) Cycling of matter in ecosystem- Nitrogen and Phosphorous cycles (Bio-geochemical cycles: C.P.N. cycles)

   d) Primary and Secondary productivity

   e) Energy flow in different ecosystems

   f) Air pollution, land and soil pollution, their control measures

Limnology

1. History, scope, water as a medium

2. Light and its fate in water

3. Temperature including thermal stratification/Fate of heat in water

4. Dissolved gases in water-Oxygen

5. Inorganic carbon in water - pH alkalinity and free carbon dioxide

6. Nutrients

7. Plankton

8. Eutrophication

9. Aquatic Pollution

   i) Sources and kinds

   ii) Effect of pollution on physico-chemical characteristics of water

   iii) Effects of pollution on biota

V.Wildlife Ecology and Management/Wildlife Biology, Conservation and Management

1. Ecological zones of India/Distribution of wildlife in India

2. Wildlife of J and K - Status/detailed account

3. Methods/Techniques of studying wildlife

4. Measures for wildlife protection, conservation and control

5. Sanctuaries, National parks- and their characteristic wildlife

VI. Developmental Biology and Comparative Anatomy/ Reproductive and Developmental Biology

1. Development and differentiation of spermatozoa and egg-spermatogenesis and oogenesis

2. Mechanism of Fertilization; approach of spermatozoa to the egg and reaction of the egg- Recognition between male and female gamete, Acrosome reaction of sperm and corticle reaction of egg

3. Vitellogenesis

4. Cleavage

   i) Pattern of cleavage

   ii) Gastrulation

   iii) Embryological significance of three germ layers

   iv) Fatemaps

5. Development and Organogenesis of chick

   i) Early development- Brain, spinal cord and eye; Heart

   ii) Excretary organism

6. Manstrual cycle

VII. Physiology and Endocrinology/Animal Physiology

1. Nutrition

   i) Animal food, composition, feeding types, intracellular and extra cellular digestion

   ii) Digestive enzymes and their functions

   iii) Absorption from Gastro intestimal tract (GIT) and assiminilation

2. Respiration and Excretion

   i) Respiratory mechanism

   ii) Excretal physiology

3. Blood vascular system and Nervous system

   i) Vertebrate heart, and its working

   ii) Electric activity/Electro-cardiogram

   iii) Heart beat/rate, cardiac output

   iv) Blood- Composition, volume, functions

   v) Blood coagulation

   vi) Control of cardio-vascular functions

   vii) Physiology of muscle contraction

   viii) Physiology of nerve impulse

VIII. Ichthyology

   i) Introduction, History, classification

   ii) Geographical distribution

   iii) Hill stream fishes - adaptions

   iv) Deep sea fishes

   v) Fish skeleton-Exoskeleton and Endoskeleton

   vi) Origin of fins in fishes

   vii) Osmoregulation

   viii) Blood vascular system

   ix) Electric organs

   x) Bioluminiscence

   xi) Fish posions/Venom