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| Arthropod circulatory fluid |
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| Connected to gut; filter wastes from circulating hemocoel into digestive tract to exit with feces |
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| Respiration system of arthropods; consist of spiracles, trachea, tracheoles |
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| Opening of tracheal system in arthropods; series of holes along body |
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| Sister clade of Arthropods; Claw-bearing; Have segmented bodies with ventral nerve cords, paired nephridia, chitin exoskeleton |
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| Scorpions and Spiders; Four pairs of legs; Book lungs; Fluid feeders |
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1) Dragline silk
2) Structural silk |
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1)Forms spokes of web and is not very stretchy
2)Stretches between spokes and has sticky drops on it |
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| Myriapods; One pair per leg segment; powerful bite; front pair of legs are hollow fangs that inject toxins; Predatory |
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| Myriapods; Two pairs of legs per segment; herbivorous; Roll into a ball if disturbed; may exude cyanide or other toxins |
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| Three body segments; Three leg pairs; two pairs of wings |
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| Likely evolved form surface-skimming aquatic insects; derived from gill flaps in aquatic arthropods |
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| Hormones involved in metamorphosis |
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| Juvenile hormone, Ecdysone |
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| Dragonflies and Damselflies; have best compound eyes |
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| Odonate; predatory; eyes closer together, wings outstretched when at rest, front and rear wings dissimilar; Polygamous males clasp females behind the head after mating, females lay eggs in water; Eggs hatch into predatory aquatic naiads |
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| Odonates; Eyes widely spaced; wings similar in shape, at rest wings are folded over the abdomen |
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| Beetles; Most speciose clade on Earth (more than 350,000) |
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| Outer protective coat over wings in Coleopterans |
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| Grasshoppers, katydids and crickets; rub body parts together in stridulation to make mating calls; Sound perceived by tympanic membranes on legs |
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| Flies; have halteres that aid in balance; Maggot larvae eat flesh |
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| Dipteran flies that lay eggs on skin or in mosquitoes, which hatch into maggots that burrow into the skin |
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| Moths and Butterflies; have tiny scales on wings |
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| Lepidopterans; Diurnal; clubbed antennae; use visual cues to find nectar |
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| Lepidopterans; Nocturnal; use chemoreception to find food and mates; most eat nectar, some, tears of cattle or blood |
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| Bugs with mouth parts for sucking up juices; Hemipterans and Homopterans |
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| Heteropterans; Half hard proximal wing and thin membranous distal wing parts; water striders and water bugs |
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| Heteropterans; morphologically diverse; Aphids, cicadas |
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| Ants, bees and wasps; Social insects due to haplodiploidy; have social caste system of queen, sterile female workers and soldiers, and male drones. |
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| Males are haploid (n) and females are diploid (2n). Sisters are related by 75%, but to offspring by 50%. Males are only 25% related to their sisters |
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| Termites; Have high social organization |
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| Some termite species have soldiers whose heads contain two chemicals separated by a thin membrane. When they ram their heads into an invader, the chemicals mix, and the termite's head explodes, showering the invader with caustic chemicals |
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