Animals Overview

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• What are common mistakes students make with animals?
• What are some examples of animals?
• Why are arthropod eyes called "compound"?
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• What are some animals that have microorganisms that produce methane?
• Which characteristic do plants, people, and flatworms share?
• Which group of animals has two variations in their basic body plan, a medusa form and a polyp form?
• How does echolocation work?
• What are endangered animals?
• How do organisms obtain energy?
• Why are animals killed when they kill a human?
• In any food web, the organisms that are responsible for converting raw energy into usable chemical energy are collectively called ________ while organisms that recycle the nutrients trapped in dead organisms are collectively called_______?
• Platyhelminthes, like the flatworm seen here, do not have a respiratory system. All but one of the statements explains why this is possible. That is they?
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• What animals have been selectively bred?
• What are examples of gastropods?
• What do animals generally store excess glucose as?
• To what does the term stroma refer?
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• Why is digestion in hydras considered extracellular?
• Why only female mosquitoes spread malaria?
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• What is Bidder's canal and what is its function?
• In animals that lack a circulatory system, how are materials transported?
• If a native species has been labeled as endangered, what is the appropriate response?
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• Is there any true chordate without heart?
• How are the reptilians different from amphibians?
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• Members of the class Insecta are best adapted to living on?
• What is diastema? What is its role in rabbits?
• Where do we find animals called bear?
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• A polar bear in the arctic maintains a steady body temperature despite the fact that environmental temperature plummets to extreme low during winter. How is this made possible?
• What are some examples of mesokaryotic organisms?
• What are phytoplankton and zooplankton?
• What are invertebrates?
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• What adaptations allowed mammals to dominate the Cenozoic era?
• Why do most animals have coordinated movement?
• Which field of biology studies the structures of different species of animals?
• What are spiracles ?