| Abstract: | Zoology, being a basic bioscience, is essential for a better understanding of applied biological disciplines. A sound background
in zoology can often be the key to success in modern day cutting-edge biological research. Students of zoology have many more
interesting questions to ask now than ever before. Precisely when did humans take to clothing? How is losing body hair actually
correlated to body louse speciation? What is so unique about a schistosome that enables it to parasitize two very different
host species, to have a free living stage and show a broad range of host specificity in one life cycle? Genomics has already
helped us to get the molecular expression profiles of many organisms. But to understand how all the information obtained at
the molecular level fits into the scheme of things, we need a sound foundation in zoology. It is all the more fun studying
zoology now with so many interesting questions to ask and ideas to explore. |
