In one or two sentences, explain how cats and dogs, both mammals, could be classified as distinct animals. What characteristics set them apart from one another?

Cats and dogs are both mammals because they have hair, are warm-blooded, and nourish their young with milk. Dogs and cats are distinct species, incapable of producing offspring together because of the many differences in their genome.

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adioabiola adioabiola · Answer 2 · 2021-09-18T08:12:27+02:00

Mammals are warm-blooded vertebrate(backbone) animal distinguished by hair or fur on their body.

Mammals give birth to younger ones.
Female mammals produce milk in their mammary gland to feed the younger ones.

Examples of mammals includes, Huma being, lion, dog, tiger, cat, horse, goat, cow etc.

Since, cats and dogs are both mammals, the difference between them is the genome.

Genome is the complete genetic information (DNA or RNA) of an organism.

Cats and dogs have different genetic information.