Body is covered with dry and cornified skin and epidermal scales in:

mammals

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reptiles

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amphibians

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fishes

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Solution

The correct option is B
reptiles

Body is covered with dry and cornified skin and epidermal scales or scutes in reptiles. Mammals possess hair on their skin. Amphibians have smooth and moist skin devoid of scales. Fishes possess different kinds of scales covering their skin.

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Body is covered with dry and cornified skin and epidermal scales in:

The characters given below are associated with - .

i). Body covered by dry and cornified skin, epidermal scales or scutes.

ii). No external ears.

iii). Crawling or creeping habit.

iv). 3-chambered Heart.

v). Eggs with yolk.

	Characteristics	Class
1	Sucking and circular mouth, jaws absent, integument without scales, paired appendages	Cyclostomata
2	Body covered with feathers, skin moist and glandular, forelimbs form wings, lungs with air sacs	Aves
3	Mammary gland, the hair on the body, pinnae, two pairs of limbs	Mammalia
4	Mouth ventral, gills without operculum, skin with placoid scales, persistent notochord	Chondrichthyes

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