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62 Cards in this Set
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Do you find a spermatheca in male or female insects? |
Female |
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What does the spermetheca do? |
Chamber to store the sperm |
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Which compartment of the insect's digestive system undergoes molthing? |
Foregut and Hindgut |
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The crop is part of the |
Digestive System |
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Reproduction my an immature form is called |
Paedogenisis |
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The part of the insect's brain that controls the compound eyes is referred to as the |
Protocerebrum |
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Insects always have a _______ nerve chord and a ____ blood vessel |
Ventral, dorsal |
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In what order is polyembryony commonly found |
Hymenoptera |
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Insect digestive enzymes are primarily secreted in the ________ |
midgut |
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Which is not type of sperm transfer exhibited by insects? |
Ootheca |
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The most common form of waste among terrestial insects is _____ |
Uric Acid |
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Oxygen moves through the insect's body in a system of tubes called _____- |
Tracheae and Tracheoles |
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What is the names of the chemical transmitter substance that carries the wave impules from one neuron to the next? |
acetylcholine |
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What is polyembryony |
Egg dividing to give rise to multiple embryos |
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What is a spermataphore |
packet of sperm |
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What does the proventriculus do? |
Mechanically breaks the food down |
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Explain why insecticides that target the insect's nervous system can also affect our nervous system |
We both have neurons, synapse, and use acetycholine and acetylocholinsterase |
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Why is the female the "choosey" sex? |
Energy investment in producing offspring |
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For the Following structures indicate if they are typically of humans, insects or both |
_______ |
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Acetycholine |
both |
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gills |
insects |
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neurons |
both |
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pentrophic membrane |
insects |
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spermatheca |
insects
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heart |
both |
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salivary glands |
both |
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fat body |
insects |
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Insects have a a. open circulatory system b. closed circulatory system |
open circulatory system |
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Malpighian tubules are a.Excretory organs b. Part of the digestive system c. Respiratory tubes d. reproductive tubes |
Excretory Organs
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In what part of a caterpillars digestive system does absorption occur? foregut midgut hindgut buccal cavity |
Midgut |
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insects have a -ventral nerve cord and ventral blood vessel -dorsal nerve cord and ventral blood vessel -ventral nerve cord and dorsal blood vessel -dorsal nerve cord and dorsal blood vessel |
ventral nerve cord and dorsal blood vessel |
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What structure removes waste from the insect's blood -kidneys -malpighion tubules -rectum -hindgut |
Malpighion tubules |
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the protocerebrum controls movement of what structure? -antennae -head -compound eyes -labrum |
compound eyes |
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which of the following statements is true - |
oxygen moves through the body of most insects in tubes called tracheae |
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The gap between the neurons is referred to as -the synapse -acetylcholine -ganglia -spiracles |
the synapse
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which of the following is not an example of insect copulation -direct -indirect -incomplete -intermediate |
incomplete |
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Responsible for mechanical break down of food -proventriculus -midgut -spiracles -crop |
Proventriculus |
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Type of asexual reproduction where more than one embryo results form a single egg is called -paedogenisis -cyclic parthenogenesis -polyembryony -partheogenesis |
polyembryony |
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Which compartments of the insect's digestive system has cuticular lining? -midgut -midgut and hindgut -foregut and midgut -forgut and Hindgut
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foregut and hindgut |
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a spermatophore can be described as -a part of the female reproductive system -a packet of sperm -similar to the spermatheca -involved with asexual reproduction |
a packet of sperm |
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In what part of a caterpillar's digestive system are salts and water reobsorbed -buccal cavity -foregut -midgut -hindgut |
hindgut |
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Acetylcholinesterase is -a nerotransmitter -an enzyme that breaks down acetylcholine -a stimlant that triggers an action potential -a hormone -none of the above |
an enzyme that breaks down acetylcholine
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Type of asexual reproduction whre more than one embryo results from a single egg is called -paedogenesis -cylic parthenogenesis -polyembryony -parthenogenesis |
-polyembryony |
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what part of a caterpillars digestive system are salts and water reabsorbed -buccal cavity -foregut -midgut -hindgut |
hindgut |
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Acetylcholine is -a chemical transmitter -an enzyme that breaks down acetylcholine -a hormone -none of the above |
A chemical transmitter |
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What part of a caterpillars digestive system does absorption into the hemolymph occur? -foregut -midgut -hindgut -buccal cavity |
midgut |
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which of the following is not a strategy that male insects use to ensure paternity -prolonged mating -mating plugs -spermatheca -guarding of the female |
spermatheca |
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After mating, female insects store the sperm in their |
spermatheca |
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In which order does parthenogenesis reproduction commonly occur -Hymenoptera -Orthoptera -Lepidoptera -Thysanura |
-Hymenoptera |
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Insect digestive enzymes are secreted in the -foregut -midgut -the hindgut |
the midgut |
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the part of the insect's brain that controls the labrum -protocerebrum -tritocerebrum |
-tritocerebrum |
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the production of individuals from unfertilized eggs is known as -parabiosis -oviparity -parthenogenesis |
-parthenogenesis |
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The insects nervous system is composed of
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the brain, the ventral nerve cord, and ganglia |
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for the following indicate if human insect or both |
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Acetylcholinesterase |
both |
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spiracles |
insects |
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neurons |
both |
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proventriculus |
insects |
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spermatheca |
insects |
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heart |
both |
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salvary glands |
both |
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malphigan tubules |
insects |
