Exam 1 Chapters Flashcards
(18 cards)
What was Historian Animelium?
Aristotle tried to classify insects based on whether they had wings and how many wings they had
What did Bartholomaeous Anglicus do of importance?
He wrote a volume of books, called “De Proprietatibus Rerum” that was supposed to be a description of the universe.
What type of organisms are in Myraidpoda
They have mandibles on the second segment past the mouth opening and have no distinct number of legs (can be any number). Myria also means “many”.
What does the word Siphonamera literally means?
Fleas!
What is the primary way in which Mandibulates and Chelicerates differ?
The amount of legs they have
What is a cuticle?
The body wall that makes up the exoskeleton
What is an arthropod?
An arthropod (from Greek arthro-, joint + podos, foot) is an invertebrate animal having an exoskeleton (external skeleton), a segmented body, and jointed appendages.
What does ekdysis mean?
“To strip off”
What is a spiracle?
An external respiratory opening, especially each of a number of pores on the body of an insect, or each of a pair of vestigial gill slits behind the eye of a cartilaginous fish.
What is apolysis?
The separation of the old cuticle from the newly active epidermis
What do accessory glands do?
Called colleterial glands, they provide materials that attach the egg to a surface or substrate
What is the thelytoky?
It’s a form of parthenogenetic reproduction in which diploid females produce diploid female offspring without mating.
What does a chemoreceptor?
Olfactory receptors detect airborne chemical signals and taste receptors detect close range chemical signals in solution.
What is a chemoreceptor do?
Olfactory receptors detect airborne chemical signals and taste receptors detect close range chemical signals in solution
What does a photoreceptors do?
They monitor the various parts of the body with respect to each other, so such vital activities as walking, eating, or even copulating can be coordinated.
What is a taxis?
A direct movement towards or away from stimulus
What is tympanum?
A thin flat membrane that allows organisms to hear
What is classification?
Classification is the arrangement of things into groups sharing certain specified similarities.
