Classification

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What are the classes (groups) that vertebrates are divided in?
Fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, mammals.
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Scientists divide vertebrates into classes based on three main things which are...
How they absorb OXYGEN, how they REPRODUCE, how they REGULATE THEIR INTERAL BODY TEMPERATURE.
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How do birds, fish and amphibians absorb OXYGEN.
Birds: Lungs, Fish: Gills, Amphibians: Skin
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Are mammals homeotherms (warm-blooded)?
Yes
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Are reptiles poikilotherms (cold-blooded)?
Yes
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In a ring species can population 1 interbreed with population 2? And vice-versa...
Yes
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In a ring species can population 2 interbreed with population 3? And vice-versa...
Yes
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In a ring species can population 3 interbreed with population 1? And vice-versa...
No
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The binomial system gives everything a two-part Latin name, what does the first part refer to?
Genus
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The binomial system gives everything a two-part Latin name, what does the second part refer to?
Species
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How they absorb OXYGEN, how they REPRODUCE, how they REGULATE THEIR INTERAL BODY TEMPERATURE.

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Are mammals homeotherms (warm-blooded)?

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