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What kind of animal is a seahorse?
Answer: Fish
Why: Pregnancy is the father's job: male seahorses carry the eggs in a belly pouch and give birth to the young.
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Which land animal is the closest living relative of whales?
Answer: Hippo
Why: Whales sit inside the even-toed hoofed mammals with pigs, cows and camels, but hippos are their nearest branch.
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What is a group of one ancestor and all its descendants called?
Answer: Clade
Why: Clade comes from the Greek word klados, meaning branch, and each clade is one complete branch of the tree of life.
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What kind of mammal is a koala?
Answer: Marsupial
Why: At birth a koala is about the size of a jelly bean and finishes growing inside its mother's pouch.
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In which kingdom do biologists place sea sponges?
Answer: Animals
Why: Despite having no nerves, muscles or organs, sponges are animals, and the adults stay fixed in one spot.
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What is a repeated name like Gorilla gorilla called?
Answer: Tautonym
Why: Zoologists allow tautonyms such as Bison bison and Rattus rattus, but the rules for plant names forbid them.