Penguin

Kingdom: Animalia

Characters that place it here:

• multicellular form

• Can ingest food with eukaryotic cells

• have own means of locamotive

Phylum: Chordatas

Characteristics that place it here:

• Penguins are Chordatas

• Left and right side of body is a miror image of other

• Have a spinal cord

• Have a head

• Have a faill

• Digestive system is used as a part of there body

Class: Aves

Characteristics that place it here:

• Penguins have vertibraes with feathers

• modified for flight

• monophyletic lineage

Order: Sphenisciformes

• Stocky and short legged birds

Family: Spheniscidge

Characteristics that place it here

• Flightless birds

• Live by ocean (Marine birds)

• Live at equator

Genius: Aptenodytes

Species: Spheniscus-demursus

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P enguins are flightless birds 

E at fish

N ever go in high temperatures

G o in ocean daily

U nite together as a group

I ndependently find food and shelter for themselves

N atuarlly adapted to cold temperatures

S pecialized with eukaryotic cells

References:

Britanica encyclopedia- 

http://search.britannica.com/search?query=penguins

January 17, 2001

animal diversity web. http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/accounts/aptenodytes/a._patagonicus$narrative.html.
January 5, 2001