Morphology
Insects belong to this phylum
What is Arthropoda?
The description of insects that birth to larvae not eggs
What is viviparious?
A proposed explanation for a phenomenon
What is a hypothesis?
Numbers of individuals, biomass and number of species
What are measurements of success?
The taxonomic level which comes between family and species
What is Genus?
The type of circulatory systems in insects
What is open circulatory system?
! Double jeopardy ! Increased adaptability in changing environments is a benefit of what
What is sexual reproduction?
Falsifiable, trustworthy, repeatable, accepting of uncertainty
What are characteristics of science?
Flight, Metamorphosis, temperature and dessication resistance are example of insects' ability to colonize what
What are new niches or environments?
The taxonomic level of Insecta
What is a class?
Digestion is associated with this body segment
What is the third body segment, or the abdomen?
The process of shedding the exoskeleton
What is molting?
Darwin's theory that animals better adapted to their environment will survive and produce more offspring, based on the "struggle for existence."
What is natural selection?
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, you need at least this number of couplets in your dichotomous key
What is 14?
The main components of the insect nervous system
What is ganglia?
The type of metamorphis that includes a pupal stage
What is holometabolous metamorphosis?
Poor man who lot a large specmin collection in a fire. Sent Darwin his notes on survival of the fittest.
What is Alfred Russell Wallace?
Insects' primary sound
What is substrate-borne sound?
! Double jeopardy ! The way we group organisms on a phylogenetic tree
What is by common descent?
The portion of gut that does not molt
What is midgut?
The name for aquatic larvae
What is naiad?
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 is high rate of speciation?
A mnemonic to remember 7 taxonomic levels
What is (anything that works) ex: King Philip Came Over For Good Soup.