Create a dichotomous key covering all the required categories of animals.

Biology Final Project

Dichotomous Key

Assignment:

Create a dichotomous key covering all the required categories of animals.

Requirements:

• Key must be typed or written VERY nicely and presented in booklet format
• Key must be organized and neat with correct spelling
• Key must be easy to read and follow
• A picture and complete description must be included for each terminal animal category
• The following terminal categories of animals must be included in the key

• Fishes
  • Jawless fish
    • Hagfish
    • Lamprey
  • Cartilaginous fish
    • Sharks
    • Skates and rays
  • Bony fish
    • Ray-finned fish
    • Lobe-finned fish
  • Amphibians
    • Frogs and toads
    • Salamanders and newts
    • Caecilians
  • Reptiles
    • Lizards and snakes
    • Turtles
    • Crocodiles and alligators
    • Tuataras
  • Birds
    • Passeriformes (perching birds)
    • Piciformes (cavity-nesters)
    • Ciconiiformes (wading birds)
    • Procellariiformes (marine birds)
    • Sphenisciformes (penguins)
    • Strigiformes (owls)
    • Struthioniformes (flightless birds)
    • Anseriformes (waterfowl)
  • Mammals
    • Monotremes
    • Marsupials
    • Placental mammals
      • Insectivore
      • Chiroptera
      • Primates
      • Xenarthra
      • Rodentia
      • Lagomorpha
      • Carnivora
      • Proboscidea
      • Sirenia
      • Perissodactyla
      • Artiodactyla
      • Cetacea