Insect Morphology
The type of circulatory systems in insects
What is an open circulatory system?
Chemical cues released by animals intended to change the behavior of other animals' in the same species
What are pheromones?
A proposed explanation for a phenomenon
What is hypothesis?
Numbers of individuals, biomass, number of species is an example of
What are measurements of success?
What taxonomic level comes between Family and Species?
What is a genus?
In insects, growth must occur in discrete phases due to their multi-layered shell which is called…
What is an exoskeleton?
The description of insects that give live birth and do not lay or carry eggs
What is viviparous?
Scientific theory is based on what?
What is repeated testing, experimentation, and observation?
Flight, Metamorphosis, temperature and desiccation resistance are example of insects' ability to colonize what
What are niches?
What taxonomic level is Insecta?
What is a class?
Digestion is associated with this body segment
What is the third body segment (abdomen)?
The process of shedding old exoskeleton
What is molting?
Poor man. Lost his collection in a boat fire. Sent Darwin his notes on survival of the fittest.
Who is Alfred Russell Wallace?
Scientists' propensity to study larger, "more complex," animals and animals that are more culturally similar in behavior to us are examples of what?
What is taxonomic bias?
For a group of 15 insect species, the number of questions you need in your dichotomous key
What is 14?
The invagination of the outside of the insect that is responsible for ingestion
What is the foregut?
The type of metamorphosis that includes a pupal stage
What is holometabolous metamorphosis?
Characteristics of science
what is evidence, logical deduction, repeatable, falsifiable, accepts uncertainty, body of work is self correcting?
Insects' primary way of using sound
What is substrate-borne sound?
Carolus Linnaeus created what conventional system for identifying organisms?
What is binomial name system?
This organ eliminates waste, maintains the ion balance of the hemolymph, and empties into the hindgut
What are malpighian tubes?
The name for aquatic larvae
What is naiad?
Basic classical understanding of how genes are inherited. Introduces the idea of dominant and recessive genes
What is Mendelian genetics?
Large numbers of individuals, small size, and rapid generation turnover are reasons for insects' what
What is high rate of speciation?
The way we group organisms on a phylogenetic tree
What is by common descent, not similarity?