Classify Animals Based on Characteristics

How do you call a scientist who studies animals?

• Botanist

• Geneticist

• Zoologist

This is a branch of Science that deals with the study of animals.

• Parasitology

• Botany

• Zoology

Which of these is an animal?

• Planaria

• Dinoflagellate

• Mushroom

A type of symmetry where one imaginary line

is drawn in the middle that divides an animal into 2 halves.

• Bilateral Symmetry

• Radial Symmetry

• Asymmetry

How do you call the arrangement of the sensory organs and the brain clustered together at the end of the body - the head?

• Gut

• Body cavity

• Cephalization

This animal has an Incomplete gut, which means it has one opening for both food and wastes.

• Elephant

• Panda

• Planaria

This protects the spinal column in animals.

• Backbone

• Notochord

• Spinal cord

These are animals that have no notochord and backbone but have exoskeleton.

• Chordates

• Invertebrates

• Vertebrates

These are animals that can regulate their inner temperature.

• Endotherms

• Ectotherms

He was a Christian and a creationist who grouped animals “after their kind” and is known as the Father of Taxonomy.

• Gregor Mendel

• Aristotle

• Carolus Linnaeus