Chapter 1

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Aves

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The class of birds. Warm-blooded vertebrate animals, two legs, wings, feathers and lay eggs

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Animalia

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The animal kingdom, the division of life forms that includes all living and extinct animals. The animal kingdom includes invertebrates and vertebrates

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Binomial Nomenclature

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Linnaeus’s system of naming species, used latin language. Each species has a name made of two words; the first, the genus and second the species.

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Chordata

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A phylum with four distinctive characteristics: vertebra, nerve cord running down the back side; gill slits(pharynx), and a rear tail

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Fungi

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Plant kingdom including mold, yeasts, and fungi that get their food by absorption and lack chlorophyll

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Invertebrates

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Member of animal kingdom with no spine. Ex. Worms and arthropods

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Mammalia

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Vertebrates that posses mammary glands, have a body that has hair, and a well developed brain

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Monera

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Kingdom including bacterial organisms that lack a true nucleus in the cell and reproduces by fission

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Notochord

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A flexible chord of cells in the embryo stage of growth that eventually becomes the vertebra

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Osteichthyes

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Bony fish, large group of vertebrates animals that live in water and have permanent gills, fins, and scales

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Pharyngeal

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Area of the pharynx

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Placental mammals

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Mammals having placenta through which the embryo and fetus get nourishment

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Plantea

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Plant kingdom, includes multicellular photosynthesizing organisms, higher plants, and multicellular algae

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Protista

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Kingdom including the single-celled or microscopic animals and single-celled algae

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Reptilia

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The class that includes turtles, tortoises, terrapins, snakes, pythons, boas, iguanas, lizards, crocodiles, alligators, caiman, and gharials

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Taxa

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Seven categories of Linnaeus’s classification. Includes, Kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, and species.

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Taxonomy

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The science that is concerned with the naming and classification of organisms

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Vertebrate

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Animals that have a spinal cord