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What is the definition of animal?

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Anonymous

11y ago
Updated: 8/18/2019

A multicellular organism of the kingdom Animalia, differing from plants in certain typical characteristics such as capacity for locomotion, nonphotosynthetic metabolism, pronounced response to stimuli, restricted growth, and fixed bodily structure.

As an adjective, it has the meanings wild, uncivilized, or beast-like.
An animal is any member of the kingdom Animalia, comprising multicellular organisms that have a well-defined shape and usually limited growth, can move voluntarily, actively and nervous systems that allow them to respond rapidly to stimuli: some classification schemes also include protozoa and certain other single-celled eukaryotes that have motility and animal like nutritional modes.
Animals are Eukaryotic heterotrophic multicellular organisms which ingest food .

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