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Class Amphibia mainly classifed by

A

Most return to water to reproduce (or find

really weird ways around it)

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Amniotic Egg

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allows embroy to develop using nutrients in the egg

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Class Reptilia is a ______ group

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paraphyletic

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Reptile Characteristics (3)

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Dry skin with horny scales
Lungs with many chambers
Three-chambered heart

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Birds Characteristics (3)

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Four-chambered heart
Endotherms
Adaptations for powered flight
– feathers
– wings
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Mammals

Characterized by

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hair
– mammary glands
– Red blood cells without nuclei
– three middle-ear bones

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Monotremes

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Duck-billed platypus, spiny anteaters

– Monotremes lay eggs

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Marsupials

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Young are born in embryonic stage
Complete development in mother’s
marsupium
– nourished with milk from mammary glands

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Placental Mammals
(Subclass Eutheria)
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Characterized by placenta

– for exchange between embryo and mother

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