Zoology Syllabus for Indian Forest Services IFoS Mains Exam
Indian Forest Serices (IFoS) Zoology Mains Exam has two Papers
Paper-1 M.M 200
Section A
๐ Non-chordata and chordata: Classification and relationship of varous phyla upto sub-classes; Acoelomata and Coelomata; Protostomes and Deuterostomes, Bilateralia and Radiata; Status of Protista, Parazoa, Onychophora and Hemichordata; Symmetry.
๐ Protozoa: Locomotion, nutrition, reproduction; evolution of sex; General features and life history of Paramaecium, Monocystis, Plasmodium, and Leishmania.
๐ Porifera: Skeleton, canal system and reproduction.
๐ Coelenterata: Polymorphism, defensive structures and their mechanism; coral reefs and their formation; metagenesis; general features and life history of Obelia and Aurelia.
๐ Platyhelminthes: Parasitic adaptation; general features and life history of Fasciola and Taenia and their relation to man.
๐ Nemathelminthes: General features, life history and parasitic adaptation of Ascaris; nemathelminths in relation to man.
๐ Annelida: Coelom and metamerism; modes of life in polychaetes; general features and life history of nereis (Neanthes), earthworm (Pheretima) and leach (Hirudinaria).
๐ Arthropoda: Larval forms and parasitism in Crustacea; vision and respiration in arthropods (prawn, cockroach and scorpion); modification of mouth parts in insects (cockroach, mosquito, housefly, honey bee and butterfly); metamorphosis in insects and its hormonal regulation; social organization in insects (termites and honey bees).
๐ Mollusca: Feeding, respiration, locomotion, shell diversiy; general features and life history of Lamellidens, Pila and Sepia, torsion and detorsion in gastropods.
๐ Amphibia: Origin of tetrapods; parental care, paedomorphosis.
๐ Reptilia: Origin of reptiles; skull types; status of Sphenodon and crocidiles.
๐ Aves: Origin of birds; flight adaptation, migration.
๐ Mammalia: Origin of mammals; denitition; general features of egg-laying mammals, pouched-mammals, aquatic mammals and primates; endocrine glands and other hormone producing structures (pituitary, thyroid, parathyroid, adrenal, pancreas, gonads) and their interrelationships.
๐ Comparative functional anatomy of various systems of vertebrates (integument and its derivatives, endoskeleton, locomotory organs, digestive system, respiratory system, circulatory system including heart and aortic arches; urino-genital system, brain and sense organs (eye and ear).ย
Section B
Ecology
๐ Biospher: Biogeochemical cycles, green-houses effect, ozone layer and its impact; ecological succession, biomes and ecotones.
๐ Population, characteristics, population dynamics, population stabilization.
๐ Conservation of natural resources– mineral mining, fisheries, aquaculture; forestry; grassland; wildlife (Project Tiger); sustainable production in agriculture-integrated pest management.
๐ Environmental biodegradation; pollution and its impact on biosphere and its prevention.
๐ Role of hormones in drive; role of pheromones in alarm spreading; crypsis, predator detection, predator tactics, social behaviour in insects and primates; courtship (Drosophila, 3-spine stickleback and birds).
๐ Major infectious and communicable diseases (small pox, plague, malaria, tuberculosis, cholera and AIDS) their vectors, pathogens and prevention.
๐ Cattle and livestock diseases, their pathogens (helminths) and vectors (ticks, mites,Tabanus, Stomoxys)
๐ Pests of sugar cane (Pyrilla perpusiella), oil seed (Achaea janata) and rice (Sitophilus oryzae).ย
Biostatistics:
๐ Designing of experiments; null hypothesis; correlation, regression, distribution and measure of central tendency, chi square, student t-test, F-test (one-way & two-way F-test).
๐ Structure and function of cell andits organelles(nucleus, plasma membrane, mitochondria, Golgi bodies, endoplasmic reticulum, ribosomes and Iysosomes), cell division (mitosis and meiosis), mitotic spindle and mitotic apparatus, chromosome movement.
๐ Watson-Crick model of DNA, replication of DNA, protein synthesis, transcription and transcription factors.
Genetics:
๐ Gene structure and functions; genetic code.
๐ Sex chromosomes and sex determination in Drosophilla, nematodes and man.ย
๐ Mendel’s laws of inheritance, recombination, linkage, linkage-maps, multiple alleles, cistron concept; genetics of blood groups.
๐ Mutations and mutagenesis : radiation and chemical.
๐ Cloning technology, plasmids and cosmids as vectors, transgenics, transposons, DNA sequence cloning and whole animal cloning (Principles and methodology).
๐ Regulation and gene expression in pro-and eu-karyotes.
๐ Signal transduction; pedigree-analysis; congenital diseases in man.ย
๐ Human genome mapping; DNA finger-printing.ย
Evolution:
๐ Origin of life
๐ Natural selection, role of mutation in evolution, mimicry, variation, isolation, speciation.
๐ Fossils and fossilization; evolution of horse, elephant and man.
๐ Hardy-Weinberg Law, causes of change in gene frequency.
๐ Continental drift and distribution of animals.ย
๐ Systematics: Zoological nomenclature; international code; cladistics.
Section B
Biochemistry:
๐ Structure and role of carbohydrates, fats, lipids, proteins, aminoacids, nucleic acids; saturated and unsaturated fattyacids, cholesterol.
๐ Glycolysis and Krebs cycle, oxidation and reduction, oxidative phosphorylation; energy conservation and release, ATP, cyclic AMP-its structure and role.
๐ Hormone classification (steroid and peptide hormones), biosynthesis and function.
๐ Enzymes : types and mechanisms of action; immunoglobulin and immunity; vitamins and co-enzymes.ย
๐ Bioenergetics.
Physiology (with special refernece ot mammals):
๐ Composition and constituents of blood; blood groups and Rh factor in man; coagulation, factors and mechanism of coagulation; acid-base balance, thermo regulation.
๐ Oxygen and carbon dioxide transport; haemoglobin: constituents and role in regulation.
๐ Nutritive requirements; role of salivary glands, liver, pancreas and intestinal glands in digestion and absorption.
๐ Excretory products; nephron and regulation of urine formation; osmoregulation.
๐ Types of muscles, mechanism of contraction of skeletal muscles.
๐ Neuron, nerve impulse-its conduction and synaptic transmission; neurotransmitters. (g) Vision, hearing and olfaction in man.
๐ Mechanism of hormone action. 2.8. Physiology of reproduction, role of hormones and phermones.ย
Developmental Biology:
๐ Differentiation from gamete to neurula stage; dedifferentiation; metaplasia, induction, morphogenesis and morphogen; fate maps of gastrulae in frog and chick; organogenesis of eye and heart, placenation in mammals.
๐ Role of cytoplasm in and genetic control of development; cell lineage; causation of metamorphosis in frog and insects; paedogenesia and neoteny; growth, degrowth and cell death; ageing; blastogenesis; regeneration; teratogenesis; neoplasia.
๐ Invasiveness of placenta; in vitro fertilization; embryo transfer, cloning.
