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The cuticle of arthropods is composed of a thicker inner ________ layer, and a thinner outer layer. the ________. The macromolecule that characterizes the cuticle is
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| | A) | exocuticle, endocuticle, chitin.
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| | B) | procuticle, epicuticle, chitin.
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| | C) | endocuticle, procuticle, keratin.
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| | D) | epicuticle, exocuticle, keratin.
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The nonliving exoskeleton inhibits growth. To cope with this situation, arthropods use a process to shed the old exoskeleton called
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| | A) | ecdysis.
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| | B) | metamorphosis.
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| | C) | tagmatazation.
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| | D) | shedding.
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The ________ have been extinct for 200 million years but they show the basic pattern that started the arthropods.
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| | A) | crustaceans
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| | B) | pycnogonids
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| | C) | trilobites
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| | D) | xiphosurids
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The characteristics of four pairs of walking legs, a pair of pedipalps, and no mandible or antennae are found in which of the following?
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| | A) | Chelicerata
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| | B) | Eurypterida
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| | C) | Xiphosurida
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| | D) | Pycnogonida
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Which of the following can be recognized by these characteristics: unsegmented carapace, spinelike telson, book gills, and marine habitat?
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| | A) | Chelicerata
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| | B) | Eurypterida
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| | C) | Xiphosurida
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| | D) | Pycnogonida
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The following group that has four pairs of thin walking legs, eats by sucking juices from hydroids, and is particularly common in polar oceans is
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| | A) | Chelicerata.
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| | B) | Eurypterida.
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| | C) | Xiphosurida.
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| | D) | Pycnogonida.
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Which one of the following is called the giant water scorpion and is known from 200-million-year-old fossils?
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| | A) | Chelicerata
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| | B) | Eurypterida
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| | C) | Xiphosurida
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| | D) | Pycnogonida
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Members of the class Arachnida can be differentiated from other arthropods by possession of a
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| | A) | cephalothorax and trunk.
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| | B) | head, thorax, and abdomen.
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| | C) | head and thorax.
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| | D) | cephalothorax and abdomen.
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Which of the following orders contains members who have a cephalothorax and abdomen with no external segmentation, and these tagmata are joined by a narrow pedicel?
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| | A) | Araneae
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| | B) | Scorpionida
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| | C) | Opiliones
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| | D) | Acari
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Which of the following traits are unique to spiders?
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| | A) | Malpighian tubules
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| | B) | book lungs
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| | C) | simple eyes
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| | D) | silk glands
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Which of the following orders is characterized by having an abdomen divided into a preabdomen and a tail-like postabdomen?
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| | A) | Araneae
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| | B) | Scorpionida
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| | C) | Opiliones
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| | D) | Acari
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Which of the following orders is commonly known as "daddy longlegs"?
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| | A) | Araneae
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| | B) | Scorpionida
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| | C) | Opiliones
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| | D) | Acari
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Which of the following orders differs from the others by having their cephalothorax and abdomen completely fused?
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| | A) | Araneae
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| | B) | Scorpionida
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| | C) | Opiliones
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| | D) | Acari
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The mouthparts of ticks are located on an anterior projection called the
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| | A) | prostomium.
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| | B) | peristomium.
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| | C) | capitulum.
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| | D) | rostrum.
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Ticks are interesting to epidemiologists because they are second only to mosquitoes as ________ for serious diseases.
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| | A) | sources of antibiotics
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| | B) | agents
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| | C) | sources of antivenoms
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| | D) | vectors
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The following are characteristics of the black widow spider:
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| | A) | small, shiny black, with a violin-shaped dorsal marking.
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| | B) | large, brown, with obvious hairs covering the body and legs.
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| | C) | large, dull black, with a red spot on the dorsal cephalothorax.
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| | D) | small, shiny black, with a red hourglass on the ventral abdomen
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Which one of the following diseases is not carried by a tick?
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| | A) | Tularemia
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| | B) | Rocky Mountain spotted fever
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| | C) | Lyme disease
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| | D) | Mange
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The crustaceans are the only arthropods with
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| | A) | head, thorax, and abdomen.
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| | B) | two pairs of antennae.
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| | C) | mandibles.
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| | D) | biramous appendages.
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Which of the following structures help the maxillae as food handlers?
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| | A) | chelipeds
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| | B) | mandibles
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| | C) | antennules
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| | D) | maxillipeds
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The last pair of crustacean appendages that provide swift backward motion and help protect developing young in crustaceans such as crayfish are called
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| | A) | chelipeds.
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| | B) | uropods.
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| | C) | swimmerets.
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| | D) | maxillipeds.
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The crustaceans have a two-part stomach, in the first part is the
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| | A) | gastric mill.
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| | B) | digestive gland.
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| | C) | androgenic gland.
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| | D) | green gland.
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Excretory organs and osmoregulatory pores in the crustaceans are located
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| | A) | at the base of the walking legs.
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| | B) | at the base of the chelipeds.
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| | C) | at the tip of the antennae.
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| | D) | at the middle of the uropods.
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The crustaceans have two types of eyes; they are the ________ and the ________ eyes.
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| | A) | simple, median
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| | B) | median, compound
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| | C) | nauplius, simple
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| | D) | compound, simple
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While the term "blueblood" is sometimes used in literature to reference English nobility, some crustaceans actually have blue blood because their respiratory pigment is
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| | A) | hemerythrin.
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| | B) | myoglobin.
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| | C) | chlorocruorin.
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| | D) | hemocyanin.
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A compound eye is made of many small units that have individual lens and nerves. These structures are called
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| | A) | facets.
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| | B) | simple eyes.
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| | C) | ommatidia.
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| | D) | ocelli.
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The primitive larva of the crustaceans is the
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| | A) | mysis.
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| | B) | trochophore.
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| | C) | protozoea.
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| | D) | nauplius.
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Which of the following classes can be recognized by having flattened, leaflike appendages used for respiration?
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| | A) | Branchiopoda
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| | B) | Maxillopoda
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| | C) | Malacostraca
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| | D) | Chilopoda
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Which of the following classes contains the copepods and barnacles?
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| | A) | Branchiopoda
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| | B) | Maxillopoda
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| | C) | Malacostraca
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| | D) | Chilopoda
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Which of the following classes contains the crabs, shrimp, and krill?
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| | A) | Branchiopoda
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| | B) | Maxillopoda
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| | C) | Malacostraca
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| | D) | Chilopoda
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When examining the leg structure of an arthropod, the basal joint of the biramous appendage seen in the crustacean orders is known as the
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| | A) | epipodite.
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| | B) | basipodite.
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| | C) | endopodite.
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| | D) | coxopodite.
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Members of the class ________ have the most primitive characteristics of the following list.
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| | A) | Malacostraca
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| | B) | Branchiopoda
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| | C) | Maxillopoda
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| | D) | Remipedia
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Of the crustaceans in the following list, members of the class ________ are typically found in fresh water.
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| | A) | Malacostraca
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| | B) | Branchiopoda
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| | C) | Maxillopoda
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| | D) | Remipedia
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The crustaceans known as krill belong to the group
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| | A) | Branchiura.
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| | B) | Remipedia.
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| | C) | Euphausiacea.
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| | D) | Cirripedia.
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A sessile crustacean that is interesting as it doesn't self-fertilize, but mates with its' neighbors is a
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| | A) | barnacle.
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| | B) | copepod.
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| | C) | water flea.
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| | D) | remipedian.
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The term kentrogon is a life stage of a
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| | A) | barnacle.
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| | B) | copepod.
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| | C) | water flea.
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| | D) | remipedian.
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The subphylum Uniramia is characterized by having unbranched appendages and includes the ________ and the.
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| | A) | insects, myriapods
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| | B) | crustaceans, insects
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| | C) | crustaceans, millipedes
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| | D) | millipedes, myriapods
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In addition to having unbranched appendages, the Uniramia are characterized by
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| | A) | 2 pair of antennae, maxillae, and no mandibles.
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| | B) | 2 pair of antennae, mandibles, and 1 pair of maxillae.
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| | C) | 1 pair of antennae, maxillae, and 2 mandibles.
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| | D) | 1 pair of antennae, mandibles, and 2 pairs of maxillae.
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Which of the following classes is characterized by having one pair of appendages per somite except for the first one and the last two somites?
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| | A) | Uniramia
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| | B) | Chilopoda
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| | C) | Diplopoda
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| | D) | Insecta
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Which of the following classes is characterized by having two pairs of appendages per abdominal somite?
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| | A) | Uniramia
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| | B) | Chilopoda
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| | C) | Diplopoda
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| | D) | Insecta
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Mouthparts of an insect typically contain four parts. These four parts are the
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| | A) | labium, tergum, mandibles, and maxillae.
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| | B) | tergum, labrum, mandibles, and maxillae.
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| | C) | pleura, labium, mandibles, and maxillae.
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| | D) | labrum, mandibles, maxillae, and labium.
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Insects undergo metamorphosis in order to grow and exploit different habitats. The individual stages in this process are called
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| | A) | metabolites.
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| | B) | hemimetabolites.
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| | C) | nymphs.
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| | D) | instars.
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Most insects go through a complete change of body form from larva to adult; this is called ________ metamorphosis.
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| | A) | ametabolous
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| | B) | hemimetabolous
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| | C) | holometabolous
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| | D) | minimetabolous
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In addition to visual and auditory communication, insects use pheromones, which are a form of communication. |
| | A) | tactile |
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| | C) | ultraviolet wavelength |
| | D) | extrasensory |
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Bioluminescence is a form of ________ communication.
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| | A) | tactile
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| | B) | chemical
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| | C) | visual
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| | D) | extrasensory
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There are many beneficial insects and much of our resources come from insect activities, however, insects transmit some diseases. Which of the following diseases involves insect transmission?
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| | A) | Typhoid
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| | B) | Chagas' disease
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| | C) | Malaria
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| | D) | All of these are insect transmitted
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A term for the condition in which insects parasitize other insects is
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| | A) | parasitoidism.
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| | B) | abiosis.
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| | C) | commensalism
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| | D) | hyperparasitism.
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If you wanted to control an insect infestation in your fruit orchard, and wanted to employ something other than pesticides, you might release a
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| | A) | parasitoid.
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| | B) | commensal.
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| | C) | amensal.
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| | D) | symbiont.
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A classic example of an insect with a type of ________ mouthpart would be the mosquito.
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| | A) | sucking
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| | B) | sponging
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| | C) | lapping
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| | D) | biting
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The openings to the respiratory system of insects are the
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| | A) | tracheoles.
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| | B) | spiracles.
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| | C) | labia.
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| | D) | taenidia.
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Which of the following are not respiratory mechanisms seen in insects, in either juvenile forms or adults?
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| | A) | book lungs
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| | B) | tracheal gills
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| | C) | trachea
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| | D) | diffusion
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Insects produce excrement that is typically very low in water, a great advantage to insects living in dry environments. The excretory product from the malpighian tubules is high in
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| | A) | urine.
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| | B) | urea.
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| | C) | ammonia.
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| | D) | uric acid.
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The term for the stage of the juvenile insect between molts is known as the
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| | A) | instar.
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| | B) | naiad.
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| | C) | grub.
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| | D) | nauplius.
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If an insect has an egg, nymphal stages, and finally an adult stages, it exhibits ________ metamorphosis.
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| | A) | metamorphosis.
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| | B) | holometabolous
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| | C) | homologous
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| | D) | hemizygous
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| | E) | hemimetabolous
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Insects which show the highest degree of social behavior include the
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| | A) | crickets and bees.
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| | B) | cicadas and ants.
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| | C) | ants and bees.
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| | D) | bees and cicadas.
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