NTRCA college written syllabus

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wildlife conservations. 
- explain basic components and 
terminology of Ethology, 
Zoogeography and Biostatistics  
 
- explain history of the 
distribution of the land and water 
bodies of the world 
 
- relate adaptive features of 
animal with zoogeographical 
regions of the world 
 
- calculate mean, median and 
mode, range, variance, standard 
deviation and standard error in 
study of animal population. 
 
Unit 10. Ethology, Zoogeography and 
Biostatistics 
 Concepts of behaviour 
 Environmental influence upon behaviour 
 Innate behaviour of Animals 
 Concept of instinct and learning behaviour 
 Social behavior 
 Glaciation and its influence on animal 
distribution 
 Introduction to Zoogeography 
 History of the distribution of the land and 
water bodies of the world, Laurasia and 
Gondwana lard, continental drift theory 
 Zoogeographical regions of the world, their 
boundaries, physical characteristics, 
climatic conditions, vegetation and fauna 
 Introduction, definition and scope of 
biostatistics 
 Measurements of central tendency: Mean, 
median and mode 
 Regression and Correlation  
 Measures of dispersion: Range, variance, 
standard deviation and standard error 
 Chi square test of goodness of fit and 
contingency table. 
 
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