Chapter Two Flashcards
In the scientfic name what comes first?
Genus
What is the order of hierachy
Kingdom Phylum Class Oder Family Genus Species
Kingdom animalia share what three traits
Made up of cells
Can move on their own
Get their food from other sources
How are animals placed in phylum?
If they do or donโt have a backbone
Vertebrates belong in what phlyum
Chordata
What subphylum do vertebrates belong in?
Verbrata
What are the most common classes
Birds, bony fish, mammals
How many different bird species are there
9,000
What class to birds belong to
Aves
What is the most widley raised bird
Chicken
What is the second widely raised bird
Turkey
How many fish species are there
25,000
What is thw most common raised fish
Channel catfish
What class do mammal belong to?
Mammalia
What do mammals have
Mammary glands
Female mammary glands do what
Produce milk for the young
Mammals also have
Well developed brain Lower jaw bone with teeth Hair 4 chamber heart Mammals regulate their body temperatures
What are the life processes of animals
Getting and useing food Movement Circulation Respiration Growth and repair Sensation Reproduction
Taxonomy
The science of classifying organisms
Bone
The hard semi-ridgid tissue that forms the skeleton of an animal
What to bones do for an animal
They give them shape and protect them
What minerals are bones made of
Calcium, phosphate, carbonate
What are bones classified by
Compact and cancellous
What does compact look like
Soild
Cancellous
appeares of spaces within
Short
Cube shape, carpel and tarsel bones
Flat
2 plates with a layer of spongy bone
Irregular bone
Compelx with varying shapes. Vertebrae
Semsamoid
Embedded in tendons
Long
Longer than wide. Tibia femur