mammals

Question 1

Mammary Glands

Answer 1

the milk-producing gland of women or other female mammals.

Question 2

Hair

Answer 2

way to stay warm

Question 3

Endothermic

Answer 3

accompanied by or requiring the absorption of heat.

Question 4

Insectivores

Answer 4

is a carnivorous plant or animal that eats insects. An alternative term is entomophage, which also refers to the human practice of eating insects. The first insectivorous vertebrates were amphibians.

Question 5

Carnivores

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an animal that feeds on flesh.

Question 6

Omnivores

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an animal or person that eats food of both plant and animal origin.

Question 7

Ruminant herbivores

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, such as rhinoceroses, horses, and rabbits, are not ruminants, as they have a simple single-chambered stomach. These hindgut fermenters digest cellulose in an enlarged cecum through the reingestion of the cecotrope.e

Question 8

Incisors

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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

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

Question 10

Canines

Answer 10

the sharp tooth

Question 11

Monotremes

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Monotremes are mammals that lay eggs instead of giving birth to live young like marsupials and placental mammals.

Question 12

Marsupials

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Marsupials are an infraclass of mammals living primarily in Australasia and the Americas.

Question 13

Placental

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Placentalia is one of the three subdivisions of the class of animals Mammalia; the other two are Monotremata and Marsupialia.

Question 14

Chiroptera

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Bats are mammals of the order Chiroptera whose forelimbs form webbed wings, making them the only mammals naturally capable of true and sustained fligh

Question 15

Primates

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A primate is a mammal of the order Primates. In taxonomy, primates include two distinct lineages, strepsirrhines and haplorhines

Question 16

Xenarthra

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The superorder Xenarthra is a group of placental mammals, extant today only in the Americas and represented by anteaters, tree sloths, and armadillos.

Question 17

Rodentia

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Rodents are mammals of the order Rodentia, which are characterized by a single pair of unremittingly growing incisors in each of the upper and lower jaws.

Question 18

Lagomorpha

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The lagomorphs are the members of the taxonomic order Lagomorpha, of which there are two living families: the Leporidae and the Ochotonidae.

Question 19

Proboscidea

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The Proboscidea are a taxonomic order of afrotherian mammals containing one living family,

Question 20

Sirenia

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Manatees are large, fully aquatic, mostly herbivorous marine mammals sometimes known as sea cows.

Question 21

Perissodactyla

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Perissodactyls, otherwise known as odd-toed ungulates, compose an order of mammals characterized by an odd number of toes and being hindgut fermenters with somewhat simple stomachs.

Question 22

Artiodactyla

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The even-toed ungulates are ungulates, hoofed animals, whose weight is borne approximately equally by the third and fourth toes

Question 23

Cetacea

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Cetacea, are a widely distributed and diverse infraorder of carnivorous, aquatic, mammals, unable to survive on land.

Question 24

Therapsids

Answer 24

Therapsida is a group of synapsids that includes mammals and their ancestors.