Information about Zootomy
Zootomy is a contraction of zoological and anatomy. It refers to the dissection of animals as opposed to that of plants (phytotomy)
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Zoology (from Greek: ζῴον, zoion, "animal"; and λόγος, logos, "knowledge") is the biological discipline which involves the study of animals.
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Anatomy (from the Greek ἀνατομία anatomia, from ἀνατέμνειν
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Plant anatomy or phytotomy is the general term for the study of the internal structure of plants. While originally it included plant morphology, which is the description of the physical form and external structure of plants, since the mid Twentieth Century the investigation
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Androtomy is the dissection of the human body. The first recorded dissection of the human body in the Western world took place in ancient Alexandria by Herophilus and Erasistratus.
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In sciences dealing with the anatomy of animals, precise anatomical terms of location are necessary for a variety of reasons. Non-scientists often wonder why zoological and human anatomists use complex terminology to describe locations on a body, when common terms like "up",
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Cat anatomy is a branch of comparative vertebrate anatomy. Cat anatomy is especially helpful to the veterinarian surgeons, and also to the human surgeons, because of the cat's similarity with humans.
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Fish anatomy is primarily governed by the physical characteristics of water, which is much denser than air, holds a relatively small amount of dissolved oxygen, and absorbs light more than air does.
Fish have a variety of different body plans.
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Fish have a variety of different body plans.
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Bird anatomy, or the physiological structure of birds' bodies, shows many unique adaptations, mostly aiding flight. Birds have evolved a light skeletal system and light but powerful muculature which, along with circulatory and respiratory systems capable of very high metabolic
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anatomy of spiders is in some aspects similar, but also different from that of other arthropods. The following characteristics are common to all spiders: A body with two segments, eight legs, spinnerets, no chewing parts, no wings, and the presence of chelicerae, which
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