Animal Classification
Is an animal with a backbone.
What is a vertebrate?
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A thick, hard outer coverings that protect and support animals bodies.
What are exoskeletons?
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Does a vertebrate have a backbone?
Yes, vertebrates have a backbone.
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An animal that has a notochord, a tail, and structures called pharyngeal pouches at some point in its life?
What is a chordate?
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True or False
Animals are not multicellular and eukaryotes.
False
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Is an animal that doesn't have a backbone.
What is invertebrate?
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Is the largest group of insects.
What are beetles?
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Trout, guppies, perch, tuna, mackerel and more are part of what category?
What is fish?
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A flexible, rod-shaped structure that supports the body of a developing chordate?
What is a notochord?
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Do snakes digest there food?
Yes, snakes digest there food.
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Kind of symmetry can be divided into two parts that are nearly mirror images of each other anywhere through its central axis.
What is bilateral symmetry?
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What category does spiders, ticks, and scorpions part of?
What are arachnids?
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The five major groups of vertebrates?
What are fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals.
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In vertebrates, these characteristics are presented only by what?
What is embryonic development?
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Do animals get energy for life processes by eating other organisms?
Yes, they do.
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Can molecules such as DNA, RNA, and proteins in animal cells be used for animal classification.
Yes, DNA, RNA, and proteins are a way to classify animals.
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What category does crabs, shrimp and lobsters land?
What are crustaceans?
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What has skeletons made of bone and have leg for movement, there skin is smooth and moist, and their hearts have three chambers?
What is amphibians?
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Where does the nerve cord developed?
What is the central nervous system?
True or false
Animals have a protein, called collagen, that surrounds the cell and helps them keep their shape.
True
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The nine major phyla.
Phylum Annelida, Phylum Arthropoda, Phylum Chordata, Phylum Mollusca, Phylum Echinodermata, Phylum Nematoda, Phylum Platyhelminthes, Phylum Cnidaria, and Phylum Porifera.
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What category does the sea stars, sea cucumbers, and sea urchins fall in?
What is echinoderms?
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Dogs, cats, goats, rats, seals, whales, and humans are among the many vertebrates belonging to the class of what?
What is mammalia?
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Most Chordates are vertebrates, but the Chordates also include two groups of Invertebrates. What are they?
What is tunicates and lancelets?
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True or False
Most animals reproduce sexually and are capable of movement at the same point in their lives.
True
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