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nihya stack
biology
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| vertebrates-phylum | chordata |
| fish characteristics | gills, scales, paired fins, stream-lined shape with mucus coating, swim bladder |
| agnatha | jawless - lamprey and hagfish |
| chondrichtyes | cartilage skeleton - sharks and rays |
| osteichethyes | bony fish - bass, catfish, goldfish |
| amphibian characteristics | no scales on moist skin,ectothermic(cold blooded) breathes with lungs, gills, or through skin, no claws, lives water as larvae and land as adult |
| order urodela | salamander |
| anura | frogs and toads |
| reptile characteristics | dry, scaly skin, toes have claws, aminote eggs with thin leathery shell, ectothermic, 2 or 3 chambered heart |
| aminote egg | shell embryo nourished with a yolk sack |
| crocodillians | crocodile, alligator, gavian |
| testudines | turtles and tortoises |
| squamata | snakes and lizards |
| aves | birds |
| characteristics of aves | feathers, 2 scaly legs, endothermic, wings, various shaped horny beaks egg- hard calcium shell, 4-chambered heart |
| passeriformes | perching birds - bluebird, cardinal, robin, mockingbird |
| falconiformes | daytime birds of prey - bald eagle, falcon, red tailed hawk |
| anseriformes | ducks geese - mallard |
| galliformes | chickens and turkeys |
| piciformes | woodpeckers |
| Mammalia | mammals |
| characteristics of mammals | body covered with hair, mammary glands to produce milk, 4-chambered heart, endothermic, 4 different types of teeth |
| monotremes | egg layers |
| marsupials | pouched mammals - kangaroo, marsupial |
| rodenta | rats, mice, and squirrels |
| lagomorphia | rabbits and hares - easstern cottontail jack rabbit |
| chiroptera | vampire bat, brown bat, flying fox of New Guinea |
| carnivora | meat eaters - bear, fox, lions, dogs, wolf |
| artiodatyla | even toed mammals - deer, sheep, goat, cow, buffalo |
| proboscidea | elephants - asion elephant |
| primates | lemurs, monkeys, apes, man |