Mammalogy
The study of mammals
The study of mammals
True or false: Some mammals can walk, some can fly, some can swim, and some can teleport.
What is false.
Amphibians and reptiles are ________, a term that translates to "outside temperature".
Ectotherms
Like the exoskeletons of beetles, the cell walls of fungi use this protein for structure. (Hint: Vincent is kind of obsessed with it and talked about is a lot. Amphibians and some other creatures have a special enzyme to digest it called "chitinase".)
What is chitin?
Butterflies or Moths: These creatures usually rest with their wings flat (like if you stretched your arms out to the side).
What are moths?
All mammals make _____ for their young.
What is milk?
True or False: Amphibian eggs can have hard shells.
What is false?
The fruiting bodies of a fungi are called this.
What are mushrooms?
Butterflies or moths: These creatures are mostly diurnal.
What are butterflies?
All mammals are vertebrates which means they all have a ________.
What is a spine?
Reptiles or amphibians: These creatures have scales that keep moisture inside.
What are reptiles?
Hyphae are little threads that work together to form mushrooms and this vast network that can't usually be seen.
What is mycelium?
Butterflies or moths: These creatures often have adorable fuzzy antennas for sensing movement and chemicals in the dark.
What are moths?
All mammals are tetrapods, which means that even if they don't have _____ limbs, they evolved from an ancestor that did.
What is four?
Reptiles or amphibians: These creatures must live at least a portion of their lives in or around moist areas or bodies of water.
What are amphibians?
Unlike plants, fungi don't have seeds. Instead they have these.
What are spores?
The life cycle of a butterfly goes: egg, _____ (or larva), chrysalis (or pupa), and then butterfly.
What is a caterpillar?
True or False: Mammals are ectotherms.
What is false?
Reptiles or amphibians: This group of organisms evolved first.
What are amphibians?
True or False: Fungi are more closely related to animals than to plants.
What is true?
Like other insects, adult moths and butterflies have: compound eyes, antennae, a head, an _______, and a thorax.
What is an abdomen?