Question 3 — Observe two different animals in - Questions at the end of the chapter - Chapter 12 - Patterns in Life: Diversity and Classification

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Question 3
Observe two different animals in your immediate environment. What features help you distinguish between them? How do these features help place them into different groups?
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  • Compare features like body covering, symmetry, presence of a backbone, number of legs, mode of feeding and habitat.
  • These features let you place the animals into different groups — e.g. vertebrate vs invertebrate, or by phylum — based on shared characters.
Distinguishing Animals Compare covering, symmetry, backbone Compare legs, feeding and habitat Shared features sort them into groups
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