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| What are three forms of sensory perception? |
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Photoreception Mechanical Reception Chemical receptors |
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What are five Mechanical recpetors? |
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touch vibrations auditory pressure stretch/compression |
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| What kinda of eyes do insects have? |
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What are two forms of light that insects can see that we can't? |
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| Ultraviolet and Polarized |
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| What is the most common type of sensilla on insects? |
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| What is used to hear with in Orthoptera, Homoptera, and Lepidopter and what is it connected to? |
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| Tympanum connected to the sensilla |
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| What does taste and smell detection affect? 4 |
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Feeding Courtship Mating Habitat location |
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| What are three other types of receptors? |
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Temperature- thermoregulation Hygroreceptors- moisture, humidity Magnetic- sense magnetic fields, orientation |
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| What kinda of circulatory system do insects have? Where is the heart? |
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| What does the hemolymph do? |
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transport nutrients hydraulic fluid for movement immune responses and wound repair |
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| What does the respiratory system do? |
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intake, transport, and utilization of oxygen removal of carbon dioxide diffusion of gases across membrane trachea open to the outside via spiracles trachea lined with cuticle |
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| Fine tips of tracheal branches where diffusion occurs |
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| Neurohormones that are master regulators of the body |
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| What are five things the hormones controls |
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Metabolic activities Regulate Molting Determine form Regulate Diapause Reproduction |
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What is the master hormone? What hormone gives the development of the exoskeleton |
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| What are three characteristics to the Fat Body? |
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Synthesize and store proteins produce detoxifying enzymes comparable to the mammalian liver |
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| What are four characteristics to finding a mate? |
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Chemical/Olfactory Visual Sound/Auditory Vibratory |
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| Chemical used to send a message within a species sender and reciever benefit |
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| Three reasons for sound communication |
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Define territory attract a mate courtship and copulation |
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| What are two reasons for nuptial gifts |
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Assess male fitness Enhance female fecundity |
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| What is the reproductive method that most insects use? |
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| What does sperm competition and precedence mean? |
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| last male to mate usually fertilizes eggs |
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| What are 6 traits that insects have evolved for sperm competition? |
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Frequent copulations Mate guarding Remove prior sperm Prolonged copulation Mating plugs anit-aphrodisiacs |
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What is an insect cuticle? Is it similar among all arthropods? |
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Multi-layered structure that forms exoskeleton Yes |
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What is the only living layer of the cuticle What is the complex sugar in the cuticle |
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| nonliving layer secreted by the epidermis, contains chitin, inner layer soft, outer layers hard |
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| This is the series of developmental steps in which an immature insect is transformed into an adult |
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THis type of development means without change This type of insect molts even after maturity is reached |
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| This type of development means partial change and it stops at maturity |
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| What kind of development do many orders use? |
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This type of development means complete change and it is found in more successful insects Adults do not molt |
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Cells in the holometabolous larva that develop into structures such as adult eyes, antennae, wings, legs, genitalia present but inactive in larva |
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| What does IGR & CSI stand for? |
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Insect Growth Regulator Chitin Synthesis Inhibitor |
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| How many orders and species are there in the class Insecta? |
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32 orders +20,000 species |
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| 4 characteristics of Orthoptera? |
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front pair of wings often thick and leathery antennae usually long and slender, body usually elongate hind legs usually saltorial chewing mouthparts |
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| What insect outbroke in Salt Lake City in 1848? |
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| Isoptera what does it mean and what are four characteristics? |
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"Equal wing" Termites 2300 species over 250 MYA Chewing mouthparts wings present in reproductive phase Consume cellulose caste system- workers, soldiers, reproductive eusocial insects |
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| What does trophallaxis mean? |
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| exchange of alimentary fluids |
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| Pthiraptera characteristics (5) |
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LICE Eyes reduce or absent Wingless Chewing or piercing-sucking mouthparts Dorsoventrally flattened Adapted for life on a host |
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| How much money does Isoptera account for a year? |
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What kinda of insects are in Hemiptera? What does hemiptera mean? |
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True Bugs and Cicadas Half-wing |
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What does coleoptera mean? How many species are in Coleoptera? |
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| 2 characteristics of coleoptera |
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Chewing mouthparts Forewings thick and leathery or hard, hind wings membranous |
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| What is a characteristic of Diptera and how many species are in it? |
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One pari of functional wings and hind wings reduced to small knobs 100,000 species |
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| What order does malaria come from and how many deaths does malaria cause a year? |
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Diptera 1-1.5 million deaths/year |
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| What fly carries nagana (sleeping sickness)? |
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| What fly can permanently damage wheat in 3 days? |
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| What fly is used in surgery as maggots? |
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| 3 characteristics of Siphonoptera? |
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Fleas Piercing-sucking mouthparts wingless laterally compressed |
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| What insect causes plague? |
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