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kingdom_animalia_class_mammalia.docx

Margaret Vorndam, M.S. Version 42-0070-00-01

Lab Report Assistant

This document is not meant to be a substitute for a formal laboratory report. The Lab Report Assistant is simply a summary of the experiment’s questions, diagrams if needed, and data tables that should be addressed in a formal lab report. The intent is to facilitate students’ writing of lab reports by providing this information in an editable file which can be sent to an instructor.

Observations

Experiment

Kingdom Animalia: Class Mammalia

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Questions

A. How are pigs and humans similar?

B. How are pigs and humans different? What anatomical parts did you find on the pig that are not present on a human?

C. Why are both pigs and humans classified as mammals?

D. Why don’t pigs and humans share the same order?

E. To what mammalian order does each of the following animals belong?

Organism

Order

Organism

Order

Cats Bears Rhinoceros Moles

Voles Manatee Guinea Pigs Hedgehog Pikas

Baboons Cows Deer Goats Whales Sloths Capybara Pigs

Fruit bats

Laboratory Summary

What have you learned from doing this laboratory that you did not know before you began it?