Mammals

Question 1

Mammary Glands

Answer 1

Milk producing gland if women

Question 2

Hair

Answer 2

Fine threadlike strands growing from the skin of humans mammals and some other animals

Question 3

Endothermic

Answer 3

Absorption of heat

Question 4

Insectivores

Answer 4

Small nocturnal mammals

Question 5

Carnivores

Answer 5

Animal that feeds on flesh

Question 6

omnivores

Answer 6

Eats both plants and animals

Question 7

Ruminant Herbivores

Answer 7

cattle, goats, sheep, giraffes, yaks, deer, antelope, and some macropods. Taxonomically, the suborder Ruminantia (also known as ruminants) is a lineage of herbivorous artiodactyls that includes the most advanced and widespread of the world’s ungulates.

Question 8

Incisors

Answer 8

a narrow-edged tooth at the front of the mouth, adapted for cutting. In humans there are four incisors in each jaw.

Question 9

Molars

Answer 9

a grinding tooth at the back of a mammal’s mouth.

Question 10

Canines

Answer 10

• a dog.

- a pointed tooth between the incisors and premolars of a mammal, often greatly enlarged in carnivores.

Question 11

Montremes

Answer 11

a primitive mammal that lays large yolky eggs and has a common opening for the urogenital and digestive systems. Monotremes are now restricted to Australia and New Guinea, and comprise the platypus and the echidnas.

Question 12

Marsupials

Answer 12

a primitive mammal that lays large yolky eggs and has a common opening for the urogenital and digestive systems. Monotremes are now restricted to Australia and New Guinea, and comprise the platypus and the echidnas.

Question 13

Placental

Answer 13

any member of the mammalian group characterized by the presence of a placenta, which facilitates exchange of nutrients and wastes between the blood of the mother and that of the fetus. The placentals include all living mammals except marsupials and monotremes.

Question 14

Chiroptera

Answer 14

an old order dating to early Eocene: bats: suborder Megachiroptera (fruit bats); suborder Microchiroptera (insectivorous bats) order

Question 15

Primates

Answer 15

the chief bishop or archbishop of a province

Question 16

Xenarthra

Answer 16

a suborder or other division of Edentata comprising the American anteaters, armadillos, sloths, and usually the extinct ground sloths.

Question 17

Rodentia

Answer 17

a gnawing mammal of an order that includes rats, mice, squirrels, hamsters, porcupines, and their relatives, distinguished by strong constantly growing incisors and no canine teeth. They constitute the largest order of mammals.

Question 18

Lagomorpha

Answer 18

two living families

Question 19

Proboscidea

Answer 19

taxonomic order of afrotherian mammals containing one living family, Elephantidae, and several extinct families. This order, first described by J. Illiger in 1811, encompasses the trunked mammals.

Question 20

Sirenia

Answer 20

are an order of fully aquatic, herbivorous mammals that inhabit swamps, rivers, estuaries, marine wetlands, and coastal marine waters. Four species are living, in two families and genera. These are the dugong (one species) and manatees (three species).

Question 21

Perissodactyla

Answer 21

The odd toed animals

Question 22

Artiodactyla

Answer 22

an order of hoofed mammals (as the sheep, goat, pig, camel, or ox) with an even number of functional toes on each foot—compare perissodactyla.

Question 23

Cetacea

Answer 23

whale, dolphin, or porpoise.

Question 24

Therapsids

Answer 24

an extinct reptile of a Permian and Triassic order, the members of which are related to the ancestors of mammals.