Great White Shark
"Carcharodon carcharias"
By: R.E.D
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Kingdom-Animal
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Great White Sharks are heterotrophs
Multicultural
Multi cellular organism
Warm blooded
Phylum-Chordata
Characteristics that place it here:
Chordates are defined as organisms that possess a structure called a notochord.
Bilateral symmetry.
Segmented body, including segmented muscles.
Three germ layers and a well-developed coelom.
Single, dorsal, hollow nerve cord, usually with an enlarged anterior end (brain).
Tail projecting beyond (posterior to) the anus at some stage of development.
Pharyngeal pouches present at some stage of development.
Ventral heart, with dorsal and ventral blood vessels and a closed blood system.
Complete digestive system.
Class-Mammal
Characteristics that place it here:
Order-Lamiformes
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Family-Lamnidae
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Characteristics that place it here:
 S LIMY H ETEROTROPH A NIMAL R ADIANT K ILLER |
Sharks are not all man eaters.
Sharks have rows of teeth.
Sharks can swim down thousands of feet.
Sharks immigrate to Hawaii in the summer.