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State Level Eligibility Test

SLET: Life Sciences

Code No. : 04
Subject : LIFE SCIENCES
PAPER III

9. Principles of taxonomy as applied to the systematics and classification of the animal kingdom; Classification and interrelationship amongst the major invertebrate phyla; Minor invertebrate phyla, Functional anatomy of the nonchordates; Larval forms and their evolutionary
significance.

10. Classification and comparative anatomy of protochordates and chordates; Origin, evolution
and distribution of chordate groups: Adaptive radiation.

11. Histology of mammalian organ systems, nutrition, digestion and absorption; Circulation (open and closed circular, lymphatic systems, blood composition and function); Muscular contraction and electric organs; Excretion and osmoregulation: Nerve conduction and neurotransmitters; major sense organs and receptors; Homeostasis (neural and hormonal); Biolumini-scence; Reproduction.

12. Gametogenesis in animals: Molecular events during fertilization; Cleavage patterns and fate
maps; Concepts of determination, competence and induction, totipotcncy and nuclear transfer
experiments: Cell differentiation and differential gene activity; Morphogenetic determinants in egg cytoplasm; Role of maternal contributions in early embryonic development; Genetic regulation of early embryonic development in Drosophila; Homeotic genes.

13. Feeding, learning, social and sexual behaviour of animals; Parental care; Circadian rhythms; Mimicry; Migration of fishes and birds; Sociobiology; Physiological adaptation at high altitude.

14. Important human and veterinary parasites (protozoans and helminths); Life cycle and biology of Plasmodium, Trypanosoma, Ascaris, Wuchereria, Fasciola, Schistosoma and Leishmania; Molecular, cellular and physiological basis of host-parasite interactions.