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Title: Introduction to zoology
Description: 1st year intoduction to zoology for beginners

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ZOO 101
DIVERSITY OF ANIMALS
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PROFESSOR)
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LAGOS STATE UNIVERSITY,
LAGOS
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WHAT IS ZOOLOGY?

*ZOOLOGY IS THE BRANCH OF BIOLOGY
THAT DEALS WITH THE STUDY OF ANIMALS
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*BIOLOGY IS A BRANCH OF SCIENCE THAT
DEALS WITH STUDY OF LIVING ORGANISMS
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WHAT ARE ANIMALS?

An Animal is a member of the Kingdom Animalia
and the Unicellular Protozoans of the Kingdom
Protista that typically differs from plants
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They lack chlorophyll so are heterotrophic in
nutrition having no means of synthesizing their own
food like plants
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They have the capacity for spontaneous movement
and rapid motor responses to stimulation
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ANIMAL EVOLUTION: STUDY OF
THE ORIGIN OF ANIMALS
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ANIMAL TAXONOMY AND
SYSTEMATICS: STUDY OF ANIMAL
CLASSIFICATION
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ARTHROPOLOGY: STUDY OF MAN
AND APES
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ANIMAL CYTOLOGY: STUDY OF ANIMAL CELL
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ANIMAL HISTOLOGY: STUDY OF THE FINE
STRUCTURE OF ANIMAL TISSUES
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BATRACHOLOGY: STUDY OF AMPHIBIANS
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CETOLOGY: STUDY OF MARINE MAMMALS
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DIPTEROLOGY: STUDY OF TRUE FLIES (Dipteran)
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ENDOCRINOLOGY: STUDY OF ENDOCRINE
GLANDS AND HORMONES OF ANIMALS
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EMBRYOLOGY: STUDY OF THE PROCESSES OF
ANIMAL DEVELOPMENT
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HYDROBIOLOGY: STUDY OF AQUATIC LIFE AND

LIFE PROCESSES IN WATER
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HERPETOLOGY: STUDY OF REPTILES
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ISOPTEROLOGY: STUDY OF TERMITES
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MALACOLOGY: STUDY OF MOLLUSCS

( SNAILS,SQUID, OCTOPUS)
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MYRMECOLOGY: STUDY OF ANTS
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NEMATOLOGY: STUDY OF NEMATODE
WORMS
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OPHIOLOGY: STUDY OF SNAKES
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PALAEOZOOLOGY: STUDY OF ANIMAL
FOSSIL FROM GEOLOGICAL REMAINS
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PARASITOLOGY : STUDY OF PARASITIC
ANIMALS
PRIMATOLOGY: STUDY OF PRIMATES
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VESPOLOGY: STUDY OF WASPS
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ZOOPLANKTOLOGY: STUDY OF
PLANKTONIC ANIMALS
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ZOOGEOGRAPHY:STUDY OF ANIMAL

DISTRIBUTION ON THE EARTH
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ZOOMETRY: STUDY OF MEASUREMENTS OF

ANIMAL PARTS
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*PIGGERY: CULTIVATION OF PIGS
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*SERICULTURE/MORICULTURE:
CULTIVATION OF SILKWORMS
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*HELICICULTURE: CULTIVATION OF
HELIX SNAILS
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NOTABLE ZOOLOGISTS
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GEORGE CUVIER: ANIMAL ANATOMY
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CHARLES DARWIN: EVOLUTION
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ALFRED R
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WILLIAM HARVEY: BLOOD
CIRCULATION
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JANES GOODALL : CHIMPANZEES
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Stephen Robert Irwin: Crocodile hunter and Wild life expert
Fredrick William Frohawk: Butterflies

Johan Christian Fabricius and William Kirby:
Entomology (Insects)
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Watson: DNA
Dian Fossey: Primatologist: studied
Gorillas
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PRINCIPLES OF ANIMAL
CLASSIFICATION (Taxonomy)
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A R I S TO T L E : T WO K I N G D O M S Y S T E M F O R
ORGANISMS (PLANTS AND ANIMALS)
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J O H N R AY: M O D E R N C O N C E P T O F G E N U S A N D
SPECIES
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C A R O L U S L I N N A E U S : O R D E R O F TA X O N O M I C
C AT E G O R I E S A N D B I N O M I A L N O M E N C L AT U R E
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ERNST HAECKEL: THE NEW KINGDOM
P R O T I S TA F O R U N I C E L L U L A R O R G A N I S M S
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A RT I F I C I A L S Y S T E M : B A S E D O N
CHARACTERS OF CONVENIENCE E
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H A B I TAT O F A N I M A L ( L A N D , A I R , S E A ) , A B I L I T Y
TO F LY
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SIMILARITIES IN STRUCTURE
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NOMENCLATURE:
SYSTEM OF NAMING USING
SCIENTIFIC NAMES
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Culex pipiens pipiens,
Culex pipiens fatigans
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*SPECIE IS IN SMALL LETTER AND IS AN
ADJECTIVE
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ORDER OF TAXONOMIC
CATEGORIES
DOMAIN ( SUPERKINGDOM):
EUKARYA
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SUBSPECIES

OUTLINE CLASSIFICATION
OF ANIMALS
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SUBKINGDOM PROTOZOA
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L O W E R I N V E RT E B R AT E S : A N I M A L S WI T H O U T
V E RT E B R A L C O L U M N A N D WI T H O U T
C O E L O M I C C AV I T I E S ( A C O E L O M AT E S )
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No germ layers, tissues or Organs
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 PHYLUM CILIOPHORAN
 ( moving with Cilia)
 PHYLUM APICOMPLEXA

 ( no locomotory organelles)
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*LOWER

INVERTEBRATES(ACOELOMATES)
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* RADIALLY SYMMETRICAL

PHYLUM PORIFERA (SPONGES)
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PHYLUM CTENOPHORA
(COMB BEARERS)

KINGDOM ANIMALIA
(MULTICELLULAR ANIMALS)
*LOWER

I N V E R T E B R A T E S ( A C OE L O M A TES )
*TRIPLOBLASTIC ANIMALS
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PHYLUM PLATYHELMINTHES
(FLATWORMS)
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KINGDOM ANIMALIA
(MULTICELLULAR ANIMALS)
*LOWER

INVERTEBRATES
* P S E U D O C O E L O M A T ES ( H A S P S E U D O C O EL )
TRIPLOBLASTIC

PHYLUM ROTIFERA(radiates):
(WHEEL ANIMALCULES)
PHYLUM NEMATODA
(bilaterals): (ROUNDWORMS)

KINGDOM ANIMALIA
(MULTICELLULAR ANIMALS)
HIGHER INVERTEBRATES
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*No vertebral column
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 PHYLUM ERCHINODERMATA
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CHORDATES
* Deterostomia (Coelomates with extensive coelom)
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*Triploblastic and Bilaterally symmetrical
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LOWER CHORDATES ( NON- Vertebrate Chordates)
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Cephalochordata: e
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Amphioxus
VERTEBRATES ( WITH VERTEBRAL COLUMN)
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 Mammals
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CONCLUSION
There has been an undeniable association between
human beings and animals, the former gaining
control over shaping them at will through genetic
engineering and the latter trying to fight back
through viruses and mutations
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Title: Introduction to zoology
Description: 1st year intoduction to zoology for beginners