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It helps them by making it easier for them to glide through the water. They can also move easier, without the risk of being cut, as if they had skin. The scales also help protect it, if it gets attacked.
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∙ 10y agoIt is a protective layer over them like humans have skin. The fish scales are also thick to help reduce impact and to protect them from scratching themselves on rocks. Their bottoms don't have scales so that is the most vulnerable area.
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Why do fish have scales?
the fishes have scales, to help and protect them from the predators.
What animals that have scales?
fishes
What covers a fishes body?
scales or sometimes denticles
What do scales do for a fish?
A fishes scales do exactly the same job for a fish as your skin does for you and works in the same way. It is simply the barrier between all things on the outside and all things on the inside that constitute you.
Fishes are vertebrates most fishes have paired fins scales and gills?
Correct
Difference between placoid and cycloid scale?
Placoid scales are found in cartilaginous fishes and can be dermal or mesodermal in origin whereas cycloid scales are the bony scales found in bony fishes that are always mesodermal in origin.
What covers fishes body?
scales or sometimes denticles
Are the lines on a fishes fins considered scales?
No. they aren't scales. if they were, we would need to take them off.
Is fish scale called epithelium?
No. The fishes scales are attached to and cover the fishes skin (epithelium) to protect it.
What animals has scales?
Fish, reptiles, butterflies, and moths are the only animals currently known to have scales.
How are the scales of fish and the scales of reptiles the same?
Scales of lizard are made up of keratinized epidermal cells . Scales of fishes are of different type . most common fish scales are cycloid and ctenoid and are not keratinized . they are also coverewd by epidermis.
What is covering the fish's body?
Skin and perhaps in some fish scales.
