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One of the most important characteristics that birds share with mammals are that both are warm-blooded, which means that they regulate their own body temperature. Both birds and mammals also typically care for their young until the young can care for themselves.

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Birds and bees have wings are their wings homologous features or analogous features?

The wings of birds and bees are an example of analogous features, as they have evolved independently in each group and do not share a common ancestry that possessed wings. Homologous features are those that are inherited from a common ancestor and are usually more similar in structure.


What fundamental charateristics do frogs and birds share?

Frogs and birds are both vertebrates with skeletal systems, but frogs are amphibians and birds are avians. They have different reproductive strategies, with frogs laying eggs in water and birds laying eggs on land. Both groups are adapted for their specific habitats, with frogs having moist skin for absorbing oxygen, and birds having feathers for flight.


Are birds reptiles or mammals?

Birds are neither reptiles nor mammals. They are a separate class of vertebrate animals called Aves. Birds share characteristics with both reptiles and mammals, but they have distinct features that set them apart, such as feathers, beaks, and laying eggs.


Similar features in organisms that do not share a recent common ancestor are the result of what?

Similar features in organisms that do not share ancestry means both organisms adapted to their environment. They developed the features to survive.


Birds are grouped based on the shape of these features?

Birds are grouped based on the shape of two features. These features are their beaks or bills, and their feet. Feathers are sometimes taken in to account as well.

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What features do penguins share with other birds?

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What chartacteristic do all birds share?

They all have feathers


Do Marsupials share characteristics with other animals from other groups?

Marsupials are mammals, so share all features with other mammals. As well, they are vertebrates, so share the characteristic of having a backbone with birds, fish, reptiles and amphibians. Like birds and reptiles, mammals breathe via lungs (rather than gills), and like birds, they are warm-blooded.


Birds and bees have wings are their wings homologous features or analogous features?

The wings of birds and bees are an example of analogous features, as they have evolved independently in each group and do not share a common ancestry that possessed wings. Homologous features are those that are inherited from a common ancestor and are usually more similar in structure.


What general features do all animals share?

boobs


Do reptiles and birds share enough common characteristics to be classified in the same clade?

Reptiles and birds share enough common characteristics to be classified in the same clade called Sauropsida, which includes all modern reptiles and birds.


What two common features do all congressional members share?

All congressional members share some common features in the United States. They must all be at least 25 years of age, and they have all been elected to their positions.


What are some features of dinosaurs that have lead scientists to theorize that brids evolved from dinosaurs?

Theropod dinosaurs share many features with birds. Some include bones with honeycomb like air pockets that made them lighter, wishbones, and feathers. Further evidence comes from fossils like that of Archaeopteryx, which had features of dinosaurs and birds.


Name 2 future that all bacteria share?

The two features that all the bacteria share is that they reproduce by fission and they consist of one cell.


Do kakapo share nests with other birds?

No. Kakapo make their own nests and do not share them with any other birds.


What do the wren and osrey have in common?

They share the characteristics of all birds, feathers, warm blood, laying of eggs.


How do mammals differ from birds and what adaptation's do they share?

Adaptations that birds and mammals share include the fact that they are both warm blooded, they are both vertebrates, and they both have four chambered hearts. Unlike mammals, birds are covered in feathers and all birds lay eggs. Unlike birds, mammals are covered in hair, produce milk for their young, and nearly all mammals give birth to live young (except a few species that lay eggs).