Kingdom: Animalia, the characteristics of the Duck-Billed Platypus that place it in this kingdom are: it's multicellular, a heterotroph, it's body is made up of cells organized into tissue, it reproduces sexually, or by the joining of a female egg and a male sperm.

Phylum: Chordata, some characteristics that place it here are the notochord, or a rod that extends most of the length of the body; it stiffens the body and acts as support during movement

Class: Mammalia, some characteristics that place it here are hair, sweat glands, and 3 middle ear bones

Order: Monotremata, some characteristics that place it here are it's webbed feet, water repellant fur, grind food on plates attached to their gums, they lack teeth, they lay eggs

Family: Ornithorhynchidae, it has webbed feet, wooly, water repellant fur.

References

animal diversity web. April 17, 2002

Poem

The platypus has webbed feet

The platypus does not like meat

Plants is what it likes to eat

So come see the platypus and have some meat.

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