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Look beyond one feature - Paper 3

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Verified-feature exercise: a snake has a backbone and dry scaly skin, but no legs. Vertebrates have backbones. The five familiar groups here are mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians and fish. Mammals feed young milk; birds have feathers; use the other supplied body and life-cycle features for the remaining cards. Exceptions matter.

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Classify the snake within these five groups.
What classification mistake does the snake card help avoid?
What shared feature makes the snake a vertebrate?

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