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What is open circulation?
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Blood flowing freely through the bodies cavities.
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What is the ostia?
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Openings within the heart, also called valves, or openings.
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What is a Peristaltic contraction?
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forcing through waves.
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In the abdomen, the dorsal vessel is called the ....
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The heart.
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Where and what are the alary muscles?
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They are attached laterally to the walls of each chamber, and they expand and contract to facilitate the flow of hemolymph.
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What is a synonym for digestive system?
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Alimentary system
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What are the main parts of the alimentary system? (8 parts)
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1.Salivary glangs
2.pharynx 3.esophagus 4.crop 5.proventriculus 6.gastric caecae 7.intestine 8.rectum |
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What colour are malpigian tubules and what is their purpose.
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Very fine and yellowish or greenish. By pulling in ions they can also pull in excessive water. Ions can be reabsorbed in the hind gut, if needed.
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What is fat bodies purpose.
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To act as a liver. It detoxifies substances, stores sugars and manufactures compunds. VERY IMPORTANT FOR EGG PRODUCTION BY FEMALES!
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What colour is the trachael tube?
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Silvery tubes with taenidia (rings)
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Air sacs are basically what?
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Expanded trachae
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What are the 3 main parts to the males reproductive systems?
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Accessory gland (basically a prostate gland equivalent), 2)ejaculatory duct, and 3)aedeagus (penis)
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What are the purposes of:
1.ovary 2.spermatheca 3.collateral gland |
1.female reproductive piece
2.sperm storage 3.Produces egg cases, glues for gluing eggs to substrate. |
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1.how many reproductive openings do leps have?
2.Hymenopteras that sting are what sex and why? |
1.2
2. females. stingers are modified female ovipositors (or egg laying devices) |
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What are the 2 main types of ovarioles?
What is the definition of nurse cells? |
Without nurse cells (thysanura, odonata, plecoptera, orthops, and isops) and with nurse cells (all other insects.)
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mosquitoes carry what disease, and it is transmitted how?
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west nile virus, plasmodea, protozoan.
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What are phasmodias habits?
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They tend to move towards the surface during the morning and evening hours (peak mosquito feeding time)
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what is the vector for filariasis and what family is it in?
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Mosquitoes, nematoda.
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Chagas disease is transmitted how??
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trypanosmiasis, kissing bug, reduviis and the protozoan is flaggelated
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Chagas is new world (t/f)
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true, trypanosimosis is old world, sleeping disease, tsetese flies carry it
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leishmaniasis is transmitted how?
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flies/moths are the vector. Physeodidae=>protazoan
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onchocerhisis causes what?
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river blindness and is carried by black flies(nematoda)
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vector is mainly in flies (t/f)
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true while protazoan = nematodes
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typhus is spread how?
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lice, rickettsia bacteria is responsible. (humans may act as resevoir for carriors)
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Anthrax is spread by what?
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Dermestid beetles.
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what is "entophobia"
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dulusory parasitosis
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what are the advantages of being a social in sect?
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protection, reproduction and cooperation.
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what are the 3 pinnacles of social behaviour?
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1.portuguese man o war
2. social insects 3. mole rats (primary sterile castes) |
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What are 3 true eusocial behaviours?
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1.cooperative brood care
2. overlapping generations 3.sterile castes |
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para social behaviour has 3 traits, what are they?
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1.communal nesters (gain protection)
2.seperate broods 3.cooperation |
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2 examples os sub social insects
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bess beetles, and carrion beetles. overlapping generations
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What is haploid-diploidy?
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Male sperm is identical, while female eggs are only 50%.(meiosis occurs)
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breeding can be given up because?
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75% of genetic material is shared between all.
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trophallaxis is what?
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regurgetating
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Temporal ethology
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1.reflex bleeding (lady bugs)
2.unpalatable 3. vomit 4.formic acid 5. nausute termites (termites) 6.stinging 7. bombardier beetle with quinones |
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what are the 2 types of mimicry?
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1. batesian-non poisonous (never trys to hide, model is more abundant
2. mullerian -both toxic |
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what are the chemicals used for maggot therapy and how do they work?
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ammonia and urea-they raise ph levels to prevent bacteria from growing.
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What is allatonin?
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stimulates growth
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