mammals

Question 1

Mammary Glands

Answer 1

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

Question 2

Hair

Answer 2

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

Question 3

Endothermic

Answer 3

(of an animal) dependent on or capable of the internal generation of heat.

Question 4

Insectivores

Answer 4

an insectivorous animal or plant. mole

Question 5

Carnivores

Answer 5

an animal that feeds on flesh. wolf

Question 6

Omnivores

Answer 6

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

Question 7

Ruminant herbivores

Answer 7

Ruminants are herbivore mammals that process plant food in a multi-chambered stomach. cow

Question 8

Incisors

Answer 8

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

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

Question 10

Canines

Answer 10

a pointed tooth between the incisors and premolars of a mammal, often greatly enlarged in carnivores.

Question 11

Monotremes

Answer 11

a primitive mammal that lays large yolky eggs and has a common opening for the urogenital and digestive systems. platypus

Question 12

Marsupials

Answer 12

a mammal of an order whose members are born incompletely developed and are typically carried and suckled in a pouch on the mother’s belly, kangaroo

Question 13

Placental

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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 14

Chiroptera

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Chiroptera is the name of the order of the only mammal capable of true flight. bat

Question 15

Primates

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a mammal distinguished by having hands, handlike feet, and forward-facing eyes, and, with the exception of humans, are typically agile tree-dwellers. monkey

Question 16

Xenarthra

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a suborder or other division of Edentata. sloth

Question 17

Rodentia

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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. rat

Question 18

Lagomorpha

Answer 18

The lagomorphs are the members of the taxonomic order Lagomorpha. rabbit

Question 19

Proboscidea

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a mammal of the order Proboscidea. elephants

Question 20

Sirenia

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a large aquatic plant-eating mammal of the order Sirenia,. manatee

Question 21

Perissodactyla

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an order of nonruminant ungulate mammals that usually have an odd number of toes. horse

Question 22

Artiodactyla

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an order of hoofed mammals with an even number of functional toes on each foot. goat

Question 23

Cetacea

Answer 23

a marine mammal of the order Cetacea. dolphin

Question 24

Therapsids

Answer 24

an extinct reptile of a Permian and Triassic order, the members of which are related to the ancestors of mammals. synapsids