Common name:American alligator Alligator mississippiensis (Daudin‚ 1802) http://www.philadelphiazoo.org/Animals/Reptiles/Crocodiles-Alligators/American-Alligator.aspx Taxonomy: Domain: Eukarya Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Reptilia Order: Crocodilia Family: Alligatoridae Genus: Alligator Species: A. mississippiensis Description The American alligator has a large lizard-like body and short legs. They also possess a muscular tail. They are covered by a scaled‚ rough hide. Adults have
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Chapter 18 Outline: Diversity and Variation 18.1 The Species Concept TAXONOMY- classifying organisms in ways that reflect relationships and help distinguish one type of organism from another. SPECIES- group of organisms that is capable of breeding offspring‚ or mating‚ with another in nature to produce fertile offspring. Individual members of a species may look very different from eachother. Such differences among members of a species are known as variations Natural selection
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I find the snowy owl to be quite an interesting animal. It belongs to the kingdom Animalia‚ the phylum Chordata‚ the class Aves‚ the order Strigiformes‚ the family Strigidae‚ the genus Nyctea‚ and the species Sandiaca along with boobooks‚ screeching owls‚ and earless owls. With a height reaching up to 27 inches and a weight of 4 to 6 pounds‚ the snowy owl has a reputation as one of the biggest owls in the Arctic. Its wingspan can spread out anywhere from 45-60 inches. Most people are familiar with
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particularly oily taste. A leatherback shell is usually black and has white or yellow spots with stripes leading down their back. Leatherback Turtles grow up to seven feet long and can exceed 2‚000 pounds and they can live up to 45 years. Their phylum is chordata which means at some stage of development a dorsal nerve cord‚ a notochord‚ and gill slits exist. Leatherbacks inhabit pretty much every zone of the ocean besides the abyss because they travel from the north all the way down to the south
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apes. This led me to wonder if there was in fact a difference between monkeys and apes‚ or if they were just two different ways of saying the same thing. From researching this topic‚ I found that monkeys and apes belong to the same Domain‚ Kingdom‚ Phylum‚ Class‚ Order‚ and Sub Order‚ but have a number of profound differences that show up in what Family they belong to. Apes belong to the Sub Order Anthropoidea‚ which also includes monkeys and humans. However‚ they have their own Family‚ Hominoidea
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spotted ragged tooth shark‚ slender-tooth shark‚ spotted sand tiger shark and ground shark. Currently the Sand Tiger Shark is vulnerable and is still living in some areas of the world today. The domain of the Sand Tiger Shark is Eukaryote and its phylum is chordate. According to National Geographic Sand Tiger Shark get their name “from their tendency toward shoreline habitats‚ and they are often seen trolling the ocean floor in the surf zone‚ very close to shore.”
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Leeches in medicine Leeches belong to the phylum Annelida‚ class Hirudinea. They are exoparasites‚ meaning that they are located on the skin surface. Leeches feed on blood‚ they use suckers to attach on their hosts skin. They are dorso-ventrally flattened‚ have segmented bodies = each leech has a fixed number of segments – 34. 2 suckers are located at each end of the body (posterior and anterior). Leeches are hermaphrodites. Leaches are bilaterally symmetrical‚ with thick muscular segmented bodies
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Home Log In Sign Up Top of Form Type to search for People‚ Research Interests and Universities Searching... Bottom of Form 1‚562 The African Origin of Ancient Egyptian Civilizationmore by Brandon Pilcher This paper argues that the ancient Egyptian people and their civilization were primarily of indigenous African origin. Multidisciplinary evidence from physical anthropology‚ genetics‚ archaeology‚ and cultural anthropology are all cited... more This paper argues that the ancient
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bioluminescence by North Americans is the firefly‚ which lights its abdomen during its mating season to communicate with potential mates. This bioluminescent ability occurs in 25 different phyla many of which are totally unrelated and diverse with the phylum Fungi included in this list (an illustration of a bioluminescent fungi is displayed in figure 1). One of the features of biological light that distinguishes it from other forms of light is that it is cold light. Unlike the light of a candle‚ a lightbulb
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Seas and oceans provide various types of resources to human beings and habitats to numerous species of plants and animals. They play very important roles in the economy of a nation and its people. Still‚ the marine and coastal ecosystems are under severe stress due to human activities. Ocean Resources The ocean is one of Earth ’s most valuable natural resources. It provides food in the form of fish and shellfish—about 200 billion pounds are caught each year. It ’s used for transportation—both travel
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