Mammals

Question 1

Mammary glands

Answer 1

In a female mammal, a gland that secretes milk

Question 2

Diaphragm

Answer 2

a dome shaped muscle

Question 3

Endothermic

Answer 3

(of a reaction or process) accompanied by or requiring the absorption of heat.

Question 4

Hair

Answer 4

any of the fine threadlike strands growing from the skin of humans, mammals, and some other animals.

Question 5

Incisors

Answer 5

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

Question 6

Canines

Answer 6

In mammalian oral anatomy, the canine teeth, also called cuspids, dog teeth, fangs, or (in the case of those of the upper jaw) eye teeth, are relatively long, pointed teeth. However, they can appear more flattened, causing them to resemble incisors and leading them to be called incisiform.

Question 7

Molars

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

Question 8

Placenta

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a flattened circular organ in the uterus of pregnant eutherian mammals, nourishing and maintaining the fetus through the umbilical cord.

Question 9

Gestation period

Answer 9

The average length of human gestation is 280 days

Question 10

Anteaters

Answer 10

Anteater is a common name for the four extant mammal species of the suborder Vermilingua commonly known for eating ants and termites. The individual species have other names in English and other languages.

Question 11

Insectivores

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an insectivorous animal or plant.

Question 12

Rodents

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

Question 13

Rabbits

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Rabbits are small mammals in the family Leporidae of the order Lagomorpha, found in several parts of the world. are small, furry, mammals with long ears, short fluffy tails, and strong, large hind legs.rex rabbit

Question 14

Flying Mammals

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A number of animals have evolved aerial locomotion, either by powered flight or by gliding. Flying and gliding animals (volant animals) have evolved separately many times, without any single ancestor.

Question 15

Carnivores

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an animal that feeds on flesh.

Question 16

Trunk-Nosed Mammals

Answer 16

Transcript of Trunk-Nosed Mammals, Hoofed Mammals, and Cetaceans. There is only 1 mammal in the world that has a trunk, and that animal is….the elephant! Elephants’ trunks are a combination of both a nose and an upper lip. … All cetaceans are mammals that live in the water.

Question 17

Hoofed Mammals

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horses pig deer and rhinocereses

Question 18

Cetaceans

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Cetacea are a widely distributed and diverse clade of aquatic mammals that today consists of the whales, dolphins, and porpoises. Cetaceans are carnivorous and finned. Most species live in the sea, some in rivers.

Question 19

Manatees and Dugongs

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smallest group of mammals

Question 20

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 21

Monotremes

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

Question 22

Marsupials

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Marsupials are any members of the mammalian infraclass Marsupialia. All extant marsupials are endemic to Australasia and the Americas. A distinctive characteristic common to these species is that most of the young are carried in a pouch.