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20 Cards in this Set
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Underhair
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short, thin hairs used as insulation
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Guard Hair
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Protects the skin/Provides coloration to the animal (camouflage)
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Eccrine Glands
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Sweat glands which secrete clear, watery fluid (brow, feet, palms)
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Apocrine Glands
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Sweat glands which secrete stinky Body Odour sweat, develop during puberty (underarms)
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Scent Glands
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in the face, the feet and the anus, secrete pheremones
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Sebaceous Glands
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Secrete oily sebum which covers body and hair, keeps skin and hair glossy. Located all over the body.
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Mammary Glands
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Secrete milk to feed young, not fully developed until pregnancy
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Monotremes
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Egg-laying mammals
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Marsupials
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Mammals which rear extremely underdeveloped young in pouches
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Eutherians
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Placental mammals. Young develop within uterus, placenta supplies nutrients.
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Blastocyst
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Early embryo in Eutherian mammals
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Heterodont
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Having differentiated teeth
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Incisors
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Sharp teeth used for snipping/biting
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Canines
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Teeth specialized for piercing
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Premolars
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Teeth used for shearing/slicing
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Molars
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Teeth used for crushing/Grinding
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Deciduous Teeth
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Teeth which are lost and replaced by adult teeth (baby teeth)
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Ruminants
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Have 4 stomachs, regurgitate food and swallow into next stomach for further digestion.
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Cecum
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Pouch used to ferment plant material in digestive tract of herbivores
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Alveoli
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Highly vascularized sacs in the lungs which diffuse oxygen into blood stream
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