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Ivan David Lozada Martinez

The seal is a vertebrate because it has a backbone. All memmbers of the vertebrate or Chordata phylum have backbones.

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Zainab A Makawi

It is considered vertebrate because it belongs to the mammalian aquatic mammal group.

Segun Michael Abegunde

Vertebrate. Regards.

Samy Selim

I agree with my colleagues Segun Michael Abegunde Zainab A Makawi Ivan David Lozada Martinez

Ali Mohammed Yassen Al Hashemi

Of vertebrates

Thu-Alfeqar Razzaq Tweij

The seal is a vertebrate because it has a backbone. Also the seal is a member of mammals, and all mammals are vertebrate because they have internal skeletons with a backbone.