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73 Cards in this Set
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An advantage of galls
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they provide the gall maker relative safety from natural enemies
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The mechanisms of resistance include:
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avoidance, detoxfication and storage in tissues
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silk is obtained from the pupal stage of insects in which order
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Lepidoptera
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A major difference between parisitoids and parasite is that parasitoids dont usually kill their host
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false
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plants emit the same volatiles when they are heavily pruned with clippers as when they are fed on by an insect
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false
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The film silence of the lambs features a typewriter that transforms itself into a talking beetle
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false
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The movie "The Fly" is an example of a film that features metamorphosis and change
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true
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leaf cutter ants eat the fungi that they grow on the leaves they collect and chew up
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true
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the vector for lyme disease is ____ and a reservoir for the disease agent is ____.
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ticks, deer mice
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How can taking antibiotics negatively affect our digestive system
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by killing off our beneficial gut bacteria
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zoonosis is
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a disease of animals that can be transmitted to humans
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an insects main line of defense once a pathogen successfully enters its body
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hemocytes
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an insecticide that is a fumigant enters the insect through the _____/
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respiratory/tracheal system
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herbivores use plant odors to find their food
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true
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bark beetles need fungal symbionts for what purpose?
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all of the above
food, help overwhelm a trees defenses and to break down woody tissue |
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where do most microbes live in humans?
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in the digestive system
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plague is a disease that is no longer in the US
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FALSE
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The twice-stabbed ladybird beetle was imported into the United States from Korea to control euonymus scale and has since become permanently established. This is an example of what kind of biological control strategy?
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Introduction/ classical biological control
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the ecological reason that carpet beetles and clothes moths are the last insects to arrive at an animal corpse is
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the corpse is dry
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what do aphids get from a symbiotic relationship with Buchnera
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amino acids to make proteins
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Malaria is vectored by male mosquitos
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false
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Syrphids are a type of wasp that is an efficient pollinator of flowers
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false
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titan arum plant
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produces flower that smells like excrement
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all termites and ants are eusocial
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true
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arsenic was once a common insecticide
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true
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alarm pheromones can induce an individual honey bee to sting repeatedly
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false
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a persistent psticide is more likely to cause environmental damage than a non-persistent pesticide
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true
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which one of the following is not symbolized by bees
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deception
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if a dead insect has a fuzzy hairy appearance like something growing on it - it was most likely killed by a
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fungus
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a honey bee swarm will attack when distubred during swarming even when they are at a temp location and have not yet found a permanent home
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false
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human beings are eusocial
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FALSE
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Nutritive tissue of galls is free of toxic plant compounds
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true
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a chronic effect requires a high exposure over a long period of time
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false
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plants may depend upon which of the following for pollination
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wind, water small birds and insects
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the vector for plague is ____and the reservoir is ____.
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fleas, rodents
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potential negative ecological consequences of Bt plants include
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all of hte above
geen transfer, effects on nn-target species and resistsnca of target pests |
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which of the following is NOT a drawback/disadvantage when using pathogens to control pest populations
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many are highly host specific
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monarch butterflies in the U.S are seriously at risk from transgenic corn expressing Bt
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false
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adult parisitoids may be predators
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true
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mosquitoes are the main pollinators of the Arctic Bog Orchid
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True
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nutritive tissue of galls is free of toxic plant compounds
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true
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a systemic poison is one that causes damage at the location where the toxin enters the organism
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false
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M.C Escher portrayed insects in his work using this technique
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tesselation
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when a group of hemocytes wall-off a large invader to prevent it from infecting the host insect this is called.
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encapsulation
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ant soldiers are both male and female
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FALSE
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in which of the following are insects not used as agents of retribution
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a bugs life
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termite soldiers include males and females
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true
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you can catch bubonic plague directly from another person
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false
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many of the insecticides that were developed during and immedately after world war 2 were nerve poisons
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true
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plague
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fleas
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mosquitoes
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malaria
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the job that honey bee male workers perform is based on their size
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false
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phorid flies are parasitoids of ants
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true
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hemicellulose presents a formidable barrier for organisms to get access to the cellulose in plants
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false
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chemical pesticides are never part of an integrated Pest Management program program
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false
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only one insect species can from a gall on a given plant species
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false
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clothes moths eat hair and dried skin
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true
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predators can be generalists but most are specialists
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false
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Rove beetles eat the decaying tissue of the corpse
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false
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a systemic poison is one that causes damage at the location where the toxin enters the organism
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false
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termite colonies
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multiple queens
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bumble bee colonies
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one queen
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chemical pesticides are never part of an integrated pest management program
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false
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scale insects are in the suborder
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homoptera
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what order does not contain members that are parasitoids
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dermaptera
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dead caterpillar appears white or very soft, hanging from the top of the plant
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virus
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gypsy moths become more resistant to baculovirus infection as they age
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true
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during the day, tobacco plants emit volatile chemicals to attract caterpillars and during the night they emit chemicals to repel parasitoids
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false
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what pest was the cane toad introduced into australia to control
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sugar cane grub
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eavesdropping plant hypothesis
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sense chemicals produced by other plants being attacked by insects
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delusory parisitosis
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disorder that people hv when they think their body is filled with tiny tiny bugs
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dermaptera
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not parisitoids
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cellulose
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most abundant form of sugar
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