Scientific Perspective
What type of animal has a backbone?
Vertebrates
How do scientists study and discover different animals in the Animalia Kingdom?
By observing their natural habitat, which can be observed in a laboratory.
What animals were used in the study of helicopter technology?
Hummingbirds
Overhunting animals can make animals go endangered and affect the ________.
Food Chain
True or False, biodiversity within the environment helps support a balance in the food chain
True
Most animals reproduce sexually using ________ reproduction.
Gametic
If researchers want to know where the animals are going, how they behave, and where they are, what might they do?
Capture the animals.
Black butterflies improve light absorption by ________%?
200%
Harmful gases are released into the atmosphere, causing _______ which is threatening animal habitats.
Climate Change
Why do animals adapt to the environment that they are in?
Animals adapt to the environment that they are in so they have a better chance of survival and so they can live an easier life
What type of cell produces the lungs, liver, pancreas, bladder, and stomach lining?
Endoderm
What is the new method to help discover animals and that can even determine whether an animal's environment or habitat itself is in danger by communicating with them?
Bioacoustics sounds.
What was the first animal to become a transgenic animal?
A mouse
_________ causes more homes to be built and more animal habitats to be destroyed
Urbanization/urban sprawl
True or false, Change in climate made by humans is making it harder for the animals to survive
True
True or False? Vertebrates most of the terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems on the planet
False
What is one way scientists can discover deep sea animals and help researchers figure out which species are present annually?
Vessel-based surveys.
What technology allows us to modify animal genetics for research purposes?
Gene editing
Animals are often abused and treated poorly when kept where?
In captivity
What does overfishing do to the environment?
Imbalances the ecosystem’s food chain and damages the environment
What phylum do vertebrates belong to?
Phylum Chrodata
Which is the method that researchers use by using the most likely tail flukes or their dorsal fins of a whale or dolphin, which helps identify the species and monitor them?
Photo identification
What process is used to make animal cloning possible?
Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer (SCNT)
What is one way that aquatic wildlife is harmed from human activities?
Water pollution (oil spills, plastics in water)
Why do animals adapt to the environment that they are in?
Animals adapt to the environment that they are in so they have a better chance of survial.