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Which domain includes protists, plants, fungi and animals?

Domain Eukarya encompasses all organisms possessing true membrane-bound nucleus enclosing linear chromosomes complexed with histones, plus endomembrane system including endoplasmic reticulum, Golgi, and mitochondria or derived hydrogenosomes. Membership includes diverse protistan lineages, green plants deriving from primary endosymbiosis of cyanobacterium, multicellular fungi with absorptive nutrition and chitinous walls, and animals with collagen, nervous systems, and embryogenesis. Unified by eukaryotic signature proteins such as ubiquitin, spliceosome, and actin-tubulin cytoskeleton, molecu

Ref: Campbell Biology 12th ed., Chapter 26 Domain Eukarya includes protists plants fungi animals; OpenStax Biology Eukarya diversity

Which type of animal shows highest body heat retention?

A large bear retains body heat more effectively than a small bird, lizard, or amphibian because body size lowers the surface-area-to-volume ratio. Heat is produced throughout metabolically active tissue, which scales broadly with mass, but exchanged with the environment across body surface. As size increases, surface area grows more slowly than volume, so less heat is lost per unit mass. Bears also possess fur and subcutaneous fat that reduce conduction and convection. Birds are endothermic and insulated by feathers, but a small bird has high relative surface area and must sustain a very high

Ref: Evolutionary Analysis, Herron & Freeman, 5th Ed., Ch. 10