Characteristics of class Reptilia: 1. Creeping and burrowing terrestrial animals with scales on their body, skin is dry, and rough, without any glands. 2. Cold-blooded animals; exhibit a meroblastic segmentation. 3. Few of these shed the scales on their skin as skin cast. 4. Respiration by lungs. 5. Two pairs of pentadactyl limbs, each bearing claws. Snakes are an exception. 6. Heart is 3 chambered. However, crocodiles have a 4-chambered heart. 7. Nervous system comprises of 12 pairs of cranial nerves, lateral line system is absent. 8. Except for snakes, all the reptiles have well-developed ears. 9. possess a typical cloaca. 10. Reptiles are ureotelic, uricotelic, and ammoniotelic. 11. Fertilization is internal; oviparous and the eggs are very yolky
The characteristics of class Reptilia are
NEET UG 2013 — Botany Animal Kingdom
The characteristics of class Reptilia are
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- A
body covered with moist skin which is devoid of scales, the ear is represented by a tympanum, alimentary canal, urinary and reproductive tracts open into a common cloaca.
- B
fresh water animals with bony endoskeleton air-bladder to regulate buoyancy.
- C
marine animals with cartilaginous endoskeleton, body covered with placoid scales
- D
body covered with dry and cornified skin, scales over the body are epidermal, they do not have external cars.
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