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
The taxonomic level that comes between family and species
What is genus
In insects, growth must occur in discrete phases due to their multilayered 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
Repeated testing, experimentation, and observation are the main components that make up what?
What is scientific theory
Flight, Metamorphosis, temperature and desiccation resistance are example of insects' ability to colonize what
What are niches
The taxonomic level of Insecta
What is a class
Digestion is associated with this body segment
What is the third body segment or an 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
What is Alfred Russel Wallace
Scientists' propensity to study larger, "more complex," animals and animals that are more culturally similar in behavior to us are examples of
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
Logical deduction, repeatable, falsifiable, accepts uncertainty, body of work is self-correcting, describe...
What are characteristics of science
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