Indian Civil Service Exams (CSE) Syllabus - UPSC Exams

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Section-A

• Classfication 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.
• Protozoa : Locomotion, nutrition, reproduction; evolution of sex; General features and life history of Paramaecium, Monocystis, Plasmodium, and Leishmania.
• Porifera : Skeleton, canal system and reproduction.
• Coelenterata : Polymorphism, defensive structures and their mechanism; coral reefs and their formation; metagenesis; general features and life history of Obelia and Aurelia.
• Platyhelminthes : Parasitic adaptation; general features and life history of Fasciola and Taenia and their relation to man.
• Nemathelminthes : General features, life history and parasitic adaptation of Ascaris; nemathelminths in relation to man.
• Annelida : Coelom and metamerism; modes of life in polychaetes; general features and life history of nereis (Neanthes), earthworm (Pheretima) and leach (Hirudinaria).
• 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).
• Mollusca : Feeding, respiration, locomotion, shell diversiy; general features and life history of Lamellidens, Pila and Sepia, torsion and detorsion in gastropods.
• Echinodermata : Feeding, respiration, locomotion larval forms; general features and life history of Asterias.
• Protochordata : Origin of chordates; general features and life history of Branchiostoma and Herdamania.
• Pisces : Scales, respiration, locomotion, migration.
• Amphibia : Origin of tetrapods; parental care, paedomorphosis.
• Reptilia : Origin of reptiles; skull types; status of Sphenodon and crocidiles.
• Aves : Origin of birds; flight adaptation, migration.
• 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.
• 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).

Section- B

I. Ecology :
• Biosphere:Biogeochemical cycles, green-houses effect, ozone layer and its impact; ecological succession, biomes and ecotones.
• Population, characteristics, population dynamics, population stabilization.
• Conservation of natural resources- mineral mining, fisheries, aquaculture; forestry; grassland; wildlife (Project Tiger); susainable production in agriculture-integrated pest management.
• Environmental biodegradation; pollution and its impact on biosphere and its prevention.
  II. Ethology :
  
• Behaviour : Sensory filtering, responsiveness, sign stimuli, learning, instinct, habituation, conditioning, imprinting.
• 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).
• Orientation, navigation, homing; biological rhythms; biological clock, tidal, seasonal and circadian rhythms.
• Methods of studying animal behaviour.
  III. Economic Zoology :
  
• Apiculture, sericulture, lac culture, carp culture, pearl culture, prawn culture.
• Major infectious and communicable diseases (small pox, plague, malaria, tuberculosis, cholera and AIDS) their vectors, pathogens and prevention.
• Cattle and livestock diseases, their pathogens (helminths) and vectors (ticks, mites,Tabanus, Stomoxys)
• Pests of sugar cane (Pyrilla perpusiella), oil seed (Achaea janata) and rice (Sitophilus oryzae).
  IV. Biostatistics :
  
  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).
  V. Instrumental methods :
  
• Spectrophotometry, flame photometry, Geiger-Muller counter, scintiliation counting.
• Electron microscopy (TEM, SEM).

Indian Civil Service Exams (CSE) Syllabus - UPSC Exams