consider a horse a cow and a wolf.which two of them would have the more similar classifications?why?

Answer 1

the horse and the cow would have the most similarities (eg. size, strength, skeletal stucture, diet) and both are being used as "beasts of burden".

Answer 2

As you can see their classification similarities all end with Class. If you are talking about things like, hooves, domestication, what they eat, etc then of course the horse and cow have more similarities.

Cow
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Family: Bovidae
Subfamily: Bovinae
Genus: Bos
Species: B. taurus

Horse
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Perissodactyla
Family: Equidae
Genus: Equus
Species: E. caballus

Wolf
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Carnivora
Family: Canidae
Genus: Canis
Species: Canis lupus

Answer 3

The horse and cow are the most similar. Both are large, domesticated, hoofed herbivores that live in herds.

The wolf is a small, wild, carnivore that lives in packs.

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Answer 4

Write down each of those animals. Next to each animal, list characteristics of that animal (i.e., what they eat, how they look, etc.). Finally, YOU do the comparison. Which two share more characterisitcs? There's your answer. Use your textbook or internet sources to find the characteristics.

Here are some sites to get you started:
Cows: http://www.aipl.arsusda.gov/kc/cowfacts.html

Wolves: http://www.wolf.org/wolves/learn/learn.asp

Horses: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/horses/what.html

Answer 5

Horse and cow, as they are ruminants; cud chewers. A wolf is a carnivore, for practical purposes.

Answer 6

because of what they eat, they are herbivores, where as the wolf is carnivore & because horse & cow are ungulates, (hooved animals)