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Vertebrate Zoology Question Paper

Vertebrate Zoology

Course:Bachelor Of Science In Biology

Institution: University Of Nairobi question papers

Exam Year:2009

UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI

FIRST SEMESTER EXAMINATIONS

FIRST YEAR EXAMINATIONS FOR THE DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF SCIENCE (BIOLOGY)

SZL 102: VERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY
JUNE 15, 2009 TIME 9 A.M.- 11.00 A.M.

INSTRUCTIONS

ILLUSTRATE YOUR ANSWERS WITH WELL LABELLED DIAGRAMS WHERE APPROPRIATE

ANSWER ANY TEN QUESTIONS. EACH IS 7 MARKS

1. Discuss the current distribution of mammalian subclasses.

2. Based on external features only, classify the amphibian orders.

3. Describe the intrinsic and economic value of reptiles.

4. Outline the distinguishing morphological features of the bony fish subclasses.

5. Describe adaptations of reptiles to dry terrestrial habitats.

6. Briefly outline how birds fly and the key structural adaptations for flight.

7. Hemichordates and protochordates are vertebrates. Discuss this statement.

8. A bird often would establish a territory which it maintains by song. Discuss this
statement.

9. Give an account on the origin of tetrapods from their ancestors in the Devonian period.

10. Using specific examples, describe the economic importance of birds in Kenya.

11. Give the seven diagnostic features of the Agnatha.

12. Outline the feeding and reproductive similarity strategies of grazing marsupial and
African ungulates.

13. Describe the unifying diagnostic features of the orders Myxoindea and Petromyzontidea.

14. Using examples describe downstream and upstream breeding migrations in fish.

15. Describe the evolutionary hallmarks that accompanied the emergence of vertebrates from aquatic habitats.

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