what is animals?
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Animals are a major group of organisms, classified as the kingdom Animalia or Metazoa. In general they are multicellular, capable of locomotion and responsive to their environment, and feed by consuming other organisms. Animals have several characteristics that set them apart from other living things.
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a living organism that feeds on organic matter, typically having specialized sense organs and nervous system and able to respond rapidly to stimuli.
Explanation:
An animal is a living creature such as a dog, lion, or rabbit, rather than a bird, fish, insect, or human being. ... Any living creature other than a human being can be referred to as an animal. Language is something which fundamentally distinguishes humans from animals.
Animals are then broken down into two types: vertebrates and invertebrates.
Animals with a backbone are vertebrates.
Vertebrates belong to the phylum called Phylum Chordate.
Vertebrates are further broken down into five classes: amphibians, birds, fish, mammals, and reptiles.
There are seven main taxonomic ranks: kingdom, phylum or division, class, order, family, genus, species.
Most living animal species are in Bilateral, a clade whose members have a bilaterally symmetric body plan. The Bilateral include the protostomes—in which many groups of invertebrates are found, such as nematodes, arthropods, and mollusks—and the deuterostomes, containing both the echinoderms as well as the chordates, the latter containing the vertebrates. Life forms interpreted as early animals were present in the Ediacaran biota of the late Precambrian. Many modern animal phyla became clearly established in the fossil record as marine species during the Cambrian explosion, which began around 542 million years ago. 6,331 groups of genes common to all living animals have been identified; these may have arisen from a single common ancestor that lived 650 million years ago.
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