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Test Your Knowledge of Animal Classification

Batul Nafisa Baxamusa
Animal classification is the scientific way to organize and categorize all living beings according to how similar or different they are. This quiz is a fun way to check your knowledge on zoology.
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Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017
Scientists have placed each living thing in 7 groups (taxons). Each of these species belong to a genus, the genus belonging to a family, family to an order, order to a class, class to a phylum, phylum to a kingdom and finally the domain.
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Kingdom Animalia- Facts
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Porifera are multicellular organisms with pores and channels over their bodies. These pores and channels help in circulation of water through them.
Kingdom Animalia- Facts
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Chordates are animals that are bilaterally symmetric, have coelom, metameric segmentation, and possess a circulatory system.
Kingdom Animalia- Facts
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There is no vertebral column in invertebrates. This group includes nematodes, arthropods, and molluscs.
Kingdom Animalia- Facts
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It is interesting to note that roundworms are nematodes, classified along with insects. They have a tubular digestive system that opens at both ends.
Kingdom Animalia- Facts
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The eel-shaped, slime-producing marine Hagfish belong to class Myxini. They are the only known living animals with a skull but no vertebra column.
Kingdom Animalia- Facts
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Warm blooded animals maintain their body temperatures higher than their environment.
Kingdom Animalia- Facts
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Amphibians use their skin as a secondary respiratory surface. There are a few frogs and salamander species with no lungs and they use their skin for respiration.
Kingdom Animalia- Facts
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The amniotic egg has an evolutionary importance. It actually helped reptiles to start laying their eggs on dry land.
Kingdom Animalia- Facts
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Sea anemones are radially symmetrical.  They have top and bottom surfaces, but no left and right sides, front and back.
Kingdom Animalia- Facts
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