Seed-bearing plants.

This chapter contains questions about the classification, evolution and characteristics of seed-bearing plants (angiosperms and gymnosperms). The questions are divided into three levels: foundation, intermediate and advanced.

'Lower' plants and pteridophytes.

This chapter contains questions about the classification, anatomy and other characteristics of mosses, liverworts, horsetails, ferns and their relatives. The questions are divided into three levels: foundation, intermediate and advanced.

Answers.

This chapter contains the key to each taxonomy question asked in the previous chapters, a brief explanation of why the answers are correct and, in some cases, what the distracters mean.

Arthropods and echinoderms.

This chapter contains questions on the classification, anatomy and characteristics of the Arthropoda and Echinodermata. The questions are divided into three levels, i.e. foundation, intermediate, and advanced. Knowledge of basic facts are dealt with at the foundation level while the intermediate level and advanced levels contain questions involving more obscure facts and concepts.

Comparative anatomy and physiology.

This chapter contains questions concerned with the basic principles of anatomy and physiology in living things and the differences between, and similarities within, taxa with respect to their anatomical and physiological characteristics.

Protoctists, monerans, fungi, lichens and acellular organisms.

This chapter contains questions about the classification and characteristics of a wide range of organisms including prokaryotes, protozoa, algae, slime molds, fungi, lichens and disease-causing microbes such as viruses and prions. The questions are divided into three levels: foundation, intermediate and advanced.

Platyhelminths, annelids and molluscs.

This book chapter contains discussions and questions on the classification, anatomy, and morphological and morphometrical characteristics of Platyhelminthes, Annelids, and molluscs.

Fishes, amphibians and reptiles.

This chapter contains questions on the classification, anatomy, evolution and characteristics of the fishes, amphibians and reptiles.

Birds and mammals.

This chapter contains questions on the classification, anatomy, evolution and characteristics of birds and mammals.

Principles of classification and taxonomy.

This chapter contains questions on the classification and taxonomy of living things and its history along with questions on some important historical figures and their publications. The questions are divided into three levels, i.e. foundation, intermediate, and advanced. Knowledge of basic facts are dealt with at the foundation level while the intermediate level and advanced levels contain questions involving more obscure facts and concepts.