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A: Clam is a common name for several kinds of bivalve molluscs.
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A: Body covering can be defined as the covering of the body or a body part. Skin is the body covering…
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A: Annelids have a unique excretory system consisting of nephridia similar to kidneys in humans.…
Q: How do land animals gain and lose water?
A: BASIC INFORMATION HOMEOSTASIS It is a phenomenon of maintaining the equilibrium of the body.…
Q: How do clams move?
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Q: Does other factors (besides temperature) affect the rate of a fish?
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Q: describe how the filter-feeding in Sponges and tunicates are similar and how they are different?
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A: The fishes are found in the super class Pisces. They belong to chordates.
Q: Urchins and sand dollars lack arms. How do they move?
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A: Respiration is a metabolic process through which carbon dioxide is exhaled and oxygen is inhaled.…
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Q: Draw the structure of nephridial system in earthworm?
A: Nephridia carry out the excretion in the earthworm. It is present in pairs in the body’s segments.
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A: Amphibians are the organisms that live on both land and water. The adult amphibians use both lungs…
Q: What are the parts and function of a shark's digestive system
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Q: What is/ are the major comparison(s) between the tunicates and bony fish? Are tunicates…
A: Tunicates belong to sub phylum urochordata. These are marine animals. They have an outer covering of…
Q: How do sea star tube feet attach to substrates?
A: Tube feet are also called podia and these are small mobile tubular projections on the oral front of…
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Q: Briefly explain the mechanism of action of a sea star’s tube foot.
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Q: How is excretion done inamphibians?
A: Amphibians are the cold-blooded vertebrates. They can live in water as well as on land. There…
Q: How does water move inside sponges? What is the function of the pores in these animals?
A: Sponges are simple multicellular organisms that belong to the kingdom Animalia. They represent the…
Q: What type of fish scales regenerate fast? What type of aquatic environment they are in? Are they…
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Q: Do sea urchins have teeth?
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A: Evolution is a process of the change in the characteristics of a species over several generations…
Q: How do nephridia of annelids compare to the flame ceels of flatworms and the nephridia of…
A: Phylogenetics is the study of how different organisms are sharing evolutionary relationships with a…
Q: Give a short note on the shark's musculature?
A: Sharks are the bony fishes which is predatory and carnivorous in nature. They are found in almost…
Q: How does starfish form its coelom? how about earthworms?
A: Echinoderms are exclusively marine organisms includes starfish, sea urchins, brittle stars, and…
Q: What’s an invertebrate?
A: RH Whittaker gave the five-kingdom classification and divided all the living organisms into the five…
Q: fishes swim bladders
A: Swim bladder is located in the dorsal cavity lying just under the spinal cord in the coelomic cavity…
Q: How light penetration influence fish swimming behavior?
A: Light is vital for all living and non-living organisms, but excess light also can harm an organism.…
Q: How do jelly fishes locomote?
A: Jellyfishes are marine organisms that belong to the kingdom Animalia, and there are many kinds of…
Q: Give differences between shark and frog regarding excretory system?
A: To differentiate Excretory system of shark and frog
Q: How is movement effected in jellyfishes?
A: A ring of muscles surrounding the bell contracts and relaxes as the jellyfish swims. To propel the…
Q: How do ammocoetes and adult lamprey differ?
A: In morphology and behaviour, the larval stage of the primitive lamprey, known as an ammocoetes…
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