Biology Ii

Front 1

Which order makes up 40% of all insect species and 1/3 of all known animal species?

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Coleoptra

Front 2

Which sex of insect typically makes a noise?

Back 2

Male

Front 3

What is the first insect to lay eggs on a corpse?

Back 3

Blow Flies

Front 4

How long does it take for insects to lay eggs on a corpse?

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2 days

Front 5

What is it called when two species evolve together?

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Coevolution

Front 6

What are the honey bee dances?

Back 6

Round, Waggle, and Vibration

Front 7

What kinds of glands give off pheromones?

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Exocrine

Front 8

How many legs do insects have?

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6

Front 9

How many million years have winged insects been on the earth

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225

Front 10

where are the most powerful muscles in the insects leg located?

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femur

Front 11

what sense do the hairs on the legs of the fly help with?

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taste

Front 12

which life cycle of the insect is where the newly hatched one looks like a small adult?

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ametabolous

Front 13

which order name means "half-wing?"

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Hemiptera

Front 14

which order name means "membrane-wing"?

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Hymenoptera

Front 15

what are 2nd only to wasps and bees as pollinators?

Back 15

flies

Front 16

what insect life cycle has the stages of egg, nymph, and adult?

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hemimetabolous

Front 17

what fraction of the world food supply do pest insects eat?

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1/4

Front 18

which insect has the loudest call?

Back 18

male cricket

Front 19

Which is the parthenogenesis?

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producing young without mating

Front 20

what kinds of insects are most likely than the others to have compound eyes?

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insects that hunt other insects

Front 21

what causes an insect to molt?

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hormones

Front 22

what do maggots secrete that helps heal some wounds?

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allantoin

Front 23

what are more numerous, moths or butterflies?

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moths.

Front 24

what is the function of halteres?

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balance

Front 25

which is the 2nd largest insect order?

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hymenoptera

Front 26

name the 3 body parts of an insect

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head, thorax, abdomen

Front 27

what is the cuticle of an insect made of?

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chitin

Front 28

what is the sweet fluid called that aphids produce?

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honeydew

Front 29

how can you tell the difference between a butterfly and a moth?

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moth-winds are flat against the abdomen
butterfly-wings are held straight up

Front 30

where do parastitoid wasps lay their eggs?

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on other insects, or spiders

Front 31

what is the only place that insects dont outnumber other animals

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marine habitat

Front 32

what is the benefit to the holometablolous life cycle?

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the adults and larvae exploit to different environmental conditions

Front 33

how fast can the sphinx moth fly

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33 mph

Front 34

name one way that the cuticle benefits insects

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water resistant

Front 35

what have the hind wings of flies been modified into

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halteres

Front 36

name one eusocial insect

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termites

Front 37

what do social wasps use to make their combs?

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wood pulp

Front 38

what is diapause?

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slow development in which their metabolic rate is less than average active insect

Front 39

what butterfly copies the monarch in appearance but not in taste?

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viceroy

Front 40

how long can ant queens live

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20 yrs

Front 41

what is frass

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catipillar droppings

Front 42

biologists group living things into ___ domains

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3

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a person who believes that the universe is atleast partially controlled by supernatural powers can be described as

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vitalist

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the reuslts of an experiment

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should be repeatable by the investigator and by other investigators.

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the major defect in the natural philosphy of the ancient greeks was a belief in

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absolute truth

Front 46

almost all organisims in the kingdom___are photosynthetic

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plantae

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at the most fundamental level in lifes hieararchy, all living things contain the same basic kinds of

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molecules

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an educated guess posed as a tentative explanation is called a

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hypothesis

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the core idea that makes sense of all biology is

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evolution

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the natural philosphy of aristotle and his colleagues was

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mechanistic

Front 51

what is the difference between a tissue and an organ system?

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a organ system includes tissues

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a hypothesis is

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a tentative answer to some question

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consider the following statement "if all vertebrates have backbone, and turtles are vertebrates then turtles have backbones" this statement is a example of

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deductive reasoning

Front 54

a biologist studying interactions among the protists in a ecosystem could not be working at which level in lifes hierarchy?

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the organ level

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the variable that are always different between the experimental and the control groups are

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dependent and independent

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the first step of the scientific method is to

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observe carefully

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the variable that investigators try to keep the same for both the experimental and the control groups are

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controlled

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the alternative hypothesis

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is the opposite of the null hypothesis

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a crop scientist noted that over a period of 10 years a grasshopper species that feeds on corn gradually became resistant to insecticide which of the following best explains this in terms of natural selection?

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those beetles with natural resistance to the insecticide had the most offspring

Front 60

researchers testing new drugs usually give the drug to one group of people and give placebos, "sugar pills", to another group. The group recieving the sugar pills:

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is the control group

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____has characteristics that result from the organization of its compnent ___

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organism, organ systems