Public Service Commission Uttar Pradesh Upper Subordinate Services Examination 2007  |  Upper Subordinate Services Examination 2007 Syllabus  |  Upper Subordinate Services Examination Fee  |  Upper Subordinate Services Examination Plan  | 

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A. Animal Nutrition : 1. Energy nutrition, Energy sources, energy metabolian, Requirements of energy for maintenance and production of milk, meat, eggs and work energy evaluation of foods. 2. Protein nutritions : Sources of protein,, digestion and metabolism of protein, Protein evaluation. Requirement of protein for maintenance and production, Energy protein ratio in a ration. 3. Mineral nutrition : Sources, function, deficiency symptoms, requirements for animans and their relationship with vitamins. 4. Vitamins, hormones and Feed additives : Sources, function, deficiency, symptoms, requirements and interrelationship with minerals. 5. Applied nutrition : Evaluation of feeding experiments, digestibility and balance studies. Feeding standards and measures of feed energy. Nutrient requirement for growth maintenance and production, Balanced ration. 6 .Ruminant nutrition: Nutrient and their metabolism with reference to milk production and its composition, Nutrient requirements and feed formulation for calves, heifers,, dry and milking cows and buffaloes. 7 Non-ruminant nutrition : Nutrient and their metabolism, with special reference to meat and egg production. Nutrient requirements and feed formulation for rayer broiler and pig.

B. Animal Physiology : 1. Growth and animal production : Parental and Post natal growth, maturation, growth curves, measures of growth, factors affacting growth, bodycomposition and meat quality. 2. Milk production : Hormonal control of mammary development, Milk secretion and milk ejection, composition of milk of cows and buffaloes. 3. Animal Reproduction : Male and female reproductive organs, their components and functions. 4. Digestive Physiology :Organs of digestion and their function, Digestion of carbohydrates, protein and fat in ruminants and non-ruminants. 5.Enviromnent Physiology : Physiology relations and their regulation mechanism of adaptation, environmental factors and regulatory mechanism involved in animal bahaviour, Method of controlling climatic stress. 6. Semen quality, preservation and artificial inseminations : Components of semen, composition of spermatozoa, physical and chemical properties of ejaculated semen, semen preservation, composition, of diluents, sperm, concentration, transport of diluted semen, deep freezing techniques.

1. Commercial Dairy Farming : Comparison of dairy farming in India with advanced countries, Dairying under mixed farming and as specialised farming economic dairy farming, starting of dairy farm capital and land requirement, organisation of dairy farms, procurement of goods, opportunities in dairy farming, factors determining the efficiency of dairy animals, herd recording, budgeting, cost of milk production, Pricing policy personnel management.

2. General Management: Management of livestock (pregnant and milking cows, newly born calves), livestock records, principles of clean milk production, economics of livestock farming, housing for livestock and poultry, General problems of sheep, goat, pigs and poultry management.

3. Feeding Management : Developing practical and economic ration for dairy cattle supply of green fodder throughout the year, Land and fodder requirement of dairy farms, Feeding regimes for dry, young stock, bulls, heifers and breeding animals.

4. Management of animals under drought condition : Feeding and management of animals under drought, flood and other natural climatics.

1. Milk Technology : Organization of rural milk, procurement, collection and transport of raw milk. Quality, testing, and grading of raw milk, Quality storage grade of whole milk skimmed milk and cream. Processing, packing, storing, distributing, marketing, defects and their control and nutritive properties of the following milk. Pasteurized, standardized, Toned, double toned, sterilized, homogenized, reconstituted, recombined and flavoured milk, Culture and their management, Youghurt, Dahi, Lassi, Srikhand, legal standards, sanitation, Requirement for clean and safe milk and for the milk-Plant equipments.

2. Milk Product Technology : Selection of raw materials, assembling, production processing, storing,distributing and marketing milk products such as butter, ghee, khoa, chenna, cheese,, condensed, evaporated, dry milk, baby food, icecream and kulfi, Testing grading, judging of milk products. BIS and Agark specification, legal standards, quality control and nutritive propereties, Packing, processing and operational control cost. 3. Milk by-products Technology : Whey products, butter milk, lactose and casein.

1. Animal Genetics : mitosis and meiosis, Mendelian inheritance, deviation to Mendelism genetics, Expression of genes. Linkage and crossing over, sex determination, sex influenced and sex limited characters. Blood group and polymorphism, chromosomal aberrations, Gene and its structure, DNA as genetic material, genetic code and protein synthesis, recombinant DNA technology, Mutations, types of mutations, methods for detecting mutations and mutation role.

2. Population Genetics applied to Animal Breeding : Quantitative vs. Qualitative traits. Hardy Weinbery law, Populations vs. Individual gene and genotype frequency. Forces changing genen frequency. Random drift and small populations. Inbreeding, method of estimating inbreeding co-efficient, system of inbreeding, Effective population size, Breeding value estimation of breeding value, dominance and epistatic deviation, partioning of variation, geotype environment correlation and gemotype environment interaction.

3. Breeding System : Heritability, repeatability and genetic and phenotypic correlations, their method of estimation and precision of estimates Aids to selection and their relative merits, individual pedigree, family within family selection, progeny testing, methods of selections, basis of selection. Response to selection and its measure, selection differential sirindex selection index, recurrent. and reciprocal recurrent selection, establishment of new breed, inbreeding, out breeding, upgrading, hybridization, cross breeding, out crossing.

1. Anatomy of ox and fowl, Histological techniques, freezing paraffin embedding etc. Preparation and staining of blood film. 2. Common histological stain and embryology of cow. 3. Physiology of blood and its circulation, digestion, respiration, excretion: endocrine gland in health and diseases. 4. General knowledge of pharmacology and therapetics of drugs. 5. Veterinary hygeine with respect of water, air and habitation 6. Milk hygeine.

C. ANIMAL DISEASES : 1. Immunity and Vaccination : Principles and methods of Immunisation of animals against specific diseases, herd Immunity, disease free Zone, zero disease concept, chemprophylaxis. 2. Diseases of cattle, buffalo, sheep and goats : Etiology, symptoms, diagnosis, prevention and control and disease, treatment of the following : Anthrax, haemorrhagic, septicaemia, Balock quarter, mastitis, tuberculosis, Johnes disease, Food and mouth disease, Rinder pest, rabies, Priroplasmosis, Trypanosomiasis, Faciolisis, Milk fever and Tympanitis. Diseases of new born calf. 3. Diseases of poultry : Etiology symptoms, diagnosis, prevention, control and treatments of Ranikhet disease, Fowlpox, Aviam Leucosis complex, Marek’s disease and gumboro disease. 4.Disease of Swine : Swine fever, Hogcholera. 5. Disease of Dog : Canine distemper, Parvo disease, Rabies in pets in relation to human health.

D. VETERINARY PUBLIC HEALTH : 1. Zoonoses : Classification, definition, role of animals and birds in prevalence and transmission of Zoonotic disease. 2. Veterinary Jurisprudence : Rule and regulations for improvement of animals quality and prevention of animal diseases, Materials and methods for collection of samples for veterolegal investigation. 3. Duties and role of veternian in slaughter houses to provide meat that is produced under ideal hygienic conditions. 4. By-products from slaughter houses and their economic utilization. 5. Method of collection, preservation and processing of hormonal glands for medicinal use.

E. EXTENSION : Basic philosophy, objectives, concept and principles of extension, different methods, adopted to educate farmers, under rural conditions, Generation of technology,, its transfer and feed back, Problems and constraints in transfer of technology, Animal husbandry programmes for rural development.