Laboratories :

            The department includes 40 laboratories (28 in the male student campus and 12 in the female student one). Some of these laboratories are used in the practical sessions for under-graduate students, the others were assigned for teaching staff members and post-graduate students. These laboratories are well-equipped according to the nature of the research activities like environment and pollution unit, molecular biology unit, parasitology and entomology unit, embryology unit, cytology and genetics unit and physiology unit.

Zoology department includes numerous specialized scientific research units as :

1.Electron microscope (EM) unit :

            The use of EM has recently induced a huge progress in the ultrastructure at the cellular level which led to a great revolution in information especially for microorganisms. The EM unit has executed a lot of the distinguished scientific services inside and outside the university. This unit help teach the undergraduate students the EM techniques (scanning and transmission) through the light and electron microscope course. These techniques include sample preparation for TEM in various fields such as pathology, histology, cytology, embryology and parasitology. The unit serves post-graduate students of Zoology and other specializations like microbiology, physics, geology. The EM unit is supervised by the research center of College of Science.

2.The microscopical preparation unit :

            Microscopic preparation of samples is considered as the core of the medical and biological studies. According to the quality and accuracy of these preparations, the type of results would be expected. The unit includes a number of ambitious graduates that well trained by the previously experienced employees in the same unit. The actions that the unit performs are as follows :

· Making all types of microscopic slides of animal tissues with the complete mounting of animal samples. Also, performing blood withdraw necessary for practical sessions. The unit includes an adequate number of all types of prepared slides.

· Making slides of histochemistry and executing examination to diagnose the chemical components of tissues.

· Contributing in microscopical preparation necessary for researches and post-graduate students of the department.

· Executing training worshops for teachers and technicians working at scientific laboratories. 

3.The Central lab. :

            This lab was mainly set up to serve post-graduate students and staff members. The lab contains a collection of the well-developed and recent equipment, apparatuses and instruments such as : Spectrophotometers, sterilizers, autoclaves, deionizers, incubators, atomic absorption, centrifuge, pH meters, equipment for measuring heavy metals and automatic blood analyzers.