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Are cats chordates?


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Cats:

  1. They belong to the kingdom Animalia.
  2. Organisms of Animalia have a post-anal tail, a thyroid gland, and pharyngeal gill arches or slits during a certain developmental stage in their life.
  3. Cats have developed backbones. They also have a hollow nerve cord and a notochord.
  4. Pharyngeal gill slits or a post-anal tail are present only during the embryonic stages in a cat.
  5. Thus, they belong to the Chordata phylum.
  6. Sharks, crows, pandas, etc. are other animals that are chordates.

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