Campbell Biology, Books a la Carte Plus Mastering Biology with eText -- Access Card Package (10th Edition)
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Chapter 26.3, Problem 1CC
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To find: If hair will classify specific clade of mammals within large class mammalian.
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The vertebrates under the mammalian class are called mammals. They have breasts to nurse their kids with milk produced by their mammary glands, which comes from the Latin name “mamma.”
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