B.Sc.

4th Semester (Honours) Examination, 2022 (CBCS)

Subject: Zoology
Paper: CC - 8
(Comparative Anatomy of Vertebrates)

Full Marks: 40 Time: 2 Hrs.

The figures in the right hand margin indicate full marks.
Candidates are required to give the answers in their own words as far as practicable.

Group - A

1. Answer any five questions of the following: 2×5=10

a) Write down the difference between holobranch and hemibranch gills.
b) Differentiate between true horn and antlers.
c) Mention the role of the pillar cells.
d) Differentiate between septal gill and opercular gill.
e) Define ram ventilation.
f) Mention the origin and distribution of Vth cranial nerve in mammal.
g) What are the skeletal derivatives of first branchial arches?
h) Specify the significance of Foramen of Panizza.
Group - B
2. Answer any two questions of the following: 5×2=10
a) Enumerate different types of jaw suspension in vertebrates with proper 5
examples.
b) Briefly describe the roles of bacteria in rumination. Comment on carnassial 3+2
teeth.
c) Compare the heart of reptiles and birds with diagram. 5
d) Briefly describe the pronephric kidney with diagram. 5
Group - C
3. Answer any two questions of the following: 10×2=20
a) Mention the aortic arches present in embryonic condition of vertebrates. Give 2+8
a comparative account of aortic arches in reptiles and amphibians.
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b) Discuss the modification of brain among vertebrates with suitable diagram. 10
c) “Avian lung deviates from mammalian lung”– state characters to abet this 2+3+5
statement. Illustrate the structural organization of avian lung. Explain with
proper sketches how a single bolus of air fulfills its passage through the lung
of a bird.
d) Write short notes on the following: 3+3+4
( i) Bicornuate uterus (ii) Müllerian duct (iii) Opisthonephros
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