Zoo 305 - Modern Animal Taxonomy

General principles of Animal Taxonomy. History of Taxonomy. The objectives of Taxonomy and the Task of the Taxonomist. The contributions of Taxonomy to Biology. Theories of Taxonomy. Species and Subspecies Catagories. The hierarchy of categories and the higher Taxa. Animal population and their Diversity, Dynamic of Reproductive Isolation. Taxonomic characters. Procedures of Classifications, Morphological, Numerical, Molecular DNA hybridization, Chemotaxonomy, Immunotaxonomy and Cytotaxonomy. Taxonomic discrimination or individual variation. The