Mammals part a

Question 1

Def of mammals

Answer 1

Hairy. Milk producing, endothermic vertebrates

Question 2

hair is composed of

Answer 2

Keratin

Question 3

Pelage (fur coat) made up of two hair types

Answer 3

Under hair (dense and soft) Insulation 
Guard Hair (coarse and long) protection and color

Question 4

Vibrissae

Answer 4

Whiskers or sensory hairs

Question 5

Sebaceous Glands

Answer 5

Secrete and oily misture SEBUM into hair follicles to keep hair and skin soft

Question 6

Seat Glands

Answer 6

Occur over must of the body.

Produce sweat for evaporative cooling

Question 7

Pectoral mammae

Answer 7

In primates bats elephants manatess sloths

Question 8

Inguinal mammae

Answer 8

In most hoofed mammals

Question 9

Abdominal

Answer 9

Canid felines, pigs

Question 10

Endothermy

Answer 10

Metabolic heat

Question 11

Ectothermy

Answer 11

Ambient temperature

Question 12

Homoethermy

Answer 12

Steady

Question 13

Poililothermy

Answer 13

Changes

Question 14

Levels of resting metabolism

Answer 14

Tachymetabolism

Bradymetabolism

Question 15

What is torpor

Answer 15

A state of regulated hypothermia in a endotherm lasting a few hours

Question 16

Cold weather mammals are insulated from heat loss by

Answer 16

Hair- insulated body from heat loss by trapping air between laters of hair
Far - a layer of subcutaneious fat is a poor conductor of heat and this retains heat in the body

Question 17

Herbivores have 4 feeding habitats

Answer 17

Gnawers
grazers
browsers
grazer browsers

Question 18

Coprophagy

Answer 18

Feeding on feces

Question 19

Cecotropes are

Answer 19

Moist fecal pellets that are eatin

Question 20

Cecotropes are rich in

Answer 20

B vitamines and minerals