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Q: What is a distinguishing characteristic of the members of the genus ambystoma?
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What is hylam?

There is not animal called a hylam. You may be confusing this with a genus of frog called hyla: noun a tree frog of a widespread genus, typically bright green in color. • Genus Hyla, family Hylidae: many species.


How do you write a binomial distribution table in C program?

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What is the genetic material in Mycoplasma?

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How does species differ in their gentic code?

Not too much. Actually the genes are quite similar between human and other species. For example, there are 99.9% similarity between human being and ape. For human and pig this number should be around 99%.


Real world is full of classes explain?

In the real world, we humans like to classify everything from living things to inanimate objects, grouping things by the properties they share. For instance, in the world of living things we classify everything by kingdom, phylum, class, infraclass, order, suborder, family, subfamily, tribe, subtribe, genus and species. Thus the homo sapiens species belongs to the kingdom of animals, the phylum of chordata, the class of mammals, the order of primates, the family of hominidae, the tribe of hominini and the genus homo. Each classification is a more specialised type than the one that precedes it. Thus higher classes are more generic and lower classes more specific. The bat, which is also in the class of mammals, shares the same phylum and kingdom as we do, but differs in its order, family, tribe and genus. Thus we are related to bats in as much as we are both a type of mammal. This type of classification is known as a taxonomy, and can be represented as a hierarchy, a family tree structure, with the most generic class at the top, or root, and the more specialised types splitting off on each subsequent level. Just as we classify objects in the real world, we classify objects in the virtual world using a virtual taxonomy. The virtual taxonomy need not accurately reflect any real world taxonomy of the objects we are representing. If we wished to model a dog kennel, then we can limit the taxonomy to the genus: canis. If we also wished to identify the individual species and breed of dog then we might include those more specialised classifications, or we may limit our classification to breed. The point is we need only include those aspects that are actually of relevance to our program. For instance, we don't really need to know that a dog is actually a class of mammal unless we wished to segregate mammals from other classes, such as reptiles, but group them as animals. By organising objects in this manner, we can greatly reduce the amount of duplicate code we need to write simply by encapsulating the generic functionality within the upper base classes, and placing the more specific functionality within the lower derived classes. For instance, most animals make some sort of noise, thus every animal object can "speak". When we call that method upon a dog, we would expect it to bark, while a cat should meow. These are simply specialised methods of a common, generic method. Animals that don't make a noise can simply default to the generic animal method, which simply produces no sound. Thus we need only cater for those that do make a sound.

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What is a distinguishing characteristics of the members of the genus ambystoma?

One distinguishing characteristic of the members of the genus Ambystoma is their larval form, as they typically have external gills and a distinct aquatic lifestyle before transitioning to their adult form. They also exhibit a diverse range of behaviors and life history strategies, such as paedomorphosis, where some individuals retain their larval features into adulthood.


What is the scientific name genus species of the blue spotted salamander?

Ambystoma maculatum


What order does an axolotl belong to?

Kindom: Animalia, Phylum: Chordata, Class: Amphibia, Order: Caudata, Family: Ambystomatidae, Genus: Ambystoma, Species: Ambystoma Mexicanum They are mole salamanders that live in Lake Xolchimilco, Mexico but are owned widely in captivity.


What is a marbled salamander's phylogeny?

Kingdom: Anamalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Amphibia Order: Caudata Family:Ambystomatidae Genus: Ambystoma Species: opacum Scientific name: Ambystoma opacum I am working on a project for school on classification, so i choose the marbled salamander.


Is pollack the same as cod?

No, Pollack are members of the Pollachius and Theragra genus, while Cod are members of the Gadus genus.


What characteristic used to classify organisms?

they use genus and dichotomous keys


What is the genus of a red backed vole?

The red-backed voles are members of the genus Myodes.


Can two species be members of same genus not of same family?

The classification of organisms from general to specific goes: Domain, Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species. Therefor, two species the same Genus MUST be members of the same Family. However, a Family may consist of several different Genus, so species in the same Family are not necessarily members of the same Genus.


Which group of organisms would have the most recent common ancestor the members of a clade corresponding to a genus or the members of a clade corresponding to an order?

The Genus is more closely related.


Can two species be members of the same family but not the same genus?

No; if they belong to the same genus then they have to belong to the same family.


Can two species be members of the same genus but not the same family?

No; if they belong to the same genus then they have to belong to the same family.


Can two species be members of same family but not of the same genus?

No; if they belong to the same genus then they have to belong to the same family.