Biology Questions and Answers

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Biology Questions and Answers



  1. How is gas exchange done
    in mammals?


Mammals breathe through lungs, their
respiration is pulmonary.



  1. How is circulation
    characterized in mammals?


Mammals pcirculatory system.resent a close The heart has fd and complourete
chambers and the arterial blood does
not mix with venous blood.



  1. What is the type of nitrogen
    waste that mammals
    eliminate?


Like chondrichtian fishes and adult
amphibians, mammalsi.e., they excrete urea. are ureotelic,



  1. How do placental mammals
    reproduce?


Placental mammalsthey have internal fecundation a reproduce sexually,nd they (^)
are viviparodevelops within us, i.e., ththe mother’s body andeir embryo (^)
from her it gets the nutrients throthe placenta. ugh



  1. Is fecundation in mammals
    internal or external?
    Fecundation in mammals is internal,
    with coworld human technology is apulation. In the contemble toporary
    promote artificial external fecundation
    of human gametes and of gametes ofother animals.

  2. Is the mammalian
    embryonic development direct
    or indirect?


In mammalsdevelopment is dir the embryonicect, without larval (^)
stage.



  1. Are there aquatic and
    flying mammals?
    Cetaceans (whales, dolphins) and


sirenians (daquatic mammals. Cugongs, manatees) hiropterans (bats)are (^)
are flying mammals.



  1. Are the limbs modified
    into wings of bats and the
    wings of birds examples of
    evolutionary analogy or
    homology? What about whale
    fins compared to fish fins?


Bat and bird wings havfunction and the same orie the samegin (they are (^)
modified limbs) so they are analogous
and homologous organs. Whale fins area modification of the posterior limbs
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