KEY QUESTIONS IN BIODIVERSITY

An understanding of biodiversity is an important requirement of a wide range of programmes of study including biology zoology wildlife conservation and environmental science This book is a study and revision guide for students following such programmes in which biodiversity is an important component It contains 600 multiple choice questions and answers set at three levels foundation intermediate and advanced and grouped into 10 major topic areas 1 Principles of classification and taxonomy 2 Comparative anatomy and physiology3 Protoctists monerans fungi lichens and acellular organisms4 Lower plants and pteridophytes 5 Seed bearing plants6 Sponges cnidarians nematodes and minor animal phyla7 Platyhelminths annelids and molluscs8 Arthropods and echinoderms9 Fishes amphibians and reptiles10 Birds and mammalsThe book has been produced in a convenient format so that it can be used at any time in any place It allows the reader to learn and revise the meaning of terms used in animal and plant classification the principles of comparative physiology and the characteristics of and diversity in the major animal and plant taxa The structure of the book allows the study of one topic area or group of taxa at a time progressing through simple qu