lecture 19 Flashcards
(118 cards)
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Until recently, what was considered the sister taxa of Hexapods
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Myriapods
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What is the common name for Hexapods?
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Insects
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What is the common name for Myriapods?
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Centipedes
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Where has recent discovery placed Hexapods on the phylogentic tree of life?
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Within Crustaceans
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What has the new clade of Crustaceans called/
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PanCrustaceans
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What are Tagmata?
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Segmented bodies
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What is the tagmata most commonly found in arthropods?
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generally they have three segments comprising of:
Head (cephalization) - eatting and sensing
thorax: locomotion
Abdomen: Digestion and reproduction.
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True or False:
Some Taxa within Arthropods have a combined head and thorax, what is it called and is this true?
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It is called Cephalothorax
True
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What Taxa am I describing?
- 1 pair of antennae
- 1 pair of compound eyes
- Has many biramous limbs.
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The Trilobita
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What dose it mean to be biramous?
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to have 2-branched limbs.
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When did the majority of trilobita wiped out?
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During the end-permian extinction event roughly 280MYA
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What is the basic body plan of crustaceans?
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They have the following: 2 pairs of antennae biramous limbs compound eyes They have a cephalothroax They are covered by a carapace.
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What dose the root word -cephalo- mean>
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Head.
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What is a Carapace?
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shield that covers dorsal and lateral sides.
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What are the main mouth parts of Curstaceans?
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They are mandibles
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What are mandibles?
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Single-segmented biting/chewing.
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What is the exoskeleton of Crustaceans re-enforced with?
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Calcium carbonate.
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What dose the root word -crust- mean?
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crunchy
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How do crustaceans preform gas exchange?
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Through gills
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How do fully terrestrial Crustaceans perform gas exchange?
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they use a tracheae.
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Most Crustaceans are sexed, what is the exception?
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Barnacles, they are hermaphrodites
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How dose sperm transfer occur within Crustaceans?
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Through Copulation and intromission.
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What is Copulation?
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When the male places sperm in or on the females sperm-receiving organ.
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What is intromission?
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The male part goes inside the female part
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How do most of the females of Crustaceans Handel their eggs?
They brood their eggs until they hatch.
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True or false:
| Some freshwater and terrestrial spp of Crustaceans are direct developers
True!
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How do most Crustaceans develop through their life cycle?
Most of them have an indirect life cycle with a larval stage.
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What is the most common larval stage of Crustaceans?
They are anuplius.
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What are the four forms of nurtent gathering in Crustaceans?
1. Filter feeders
2. Scavengers
3. Predators
4. Commensals or parasites
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What is a ecologically unsound way of gathering Crustaceans?
Through bottom-trawling.
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What is the main reason bottom-trawling is unsound?
It has a 75% bycatch (fish that get thrown back)
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What are common Hexapods?
Insects and spring tails
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What are common Myriapods?
Centipedes and millipedes
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What are the FOUR shared features between Hexapods and Myriapods?
- they have one pair of antennae
- they have mandubles
- they have a tracheae
- they have uniramous limbs.
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What dose it mean to have uniramous limbs?
Having one set of legs per segment
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True or false:
| Pancrustaceans and myriapods all have mandibles as mouth parts.
True.
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What is the defining feature of Hexapods?
They are 6-legged arthropods.
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What dose the root word -hex- mean?
6
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What class is included within Hexapods (gotta love them :D)
insecta
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What is the second most important class within Hexapods?
collembola
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What is the morphological structure of Hexapods?
-They have clear and consistent Tagmata
Collembola are entognathous
Insecta are ectognathous
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What is found on each of the segments of tagmata within Hexapods?
head: 1 pair of antennae
Thorax: 3 pairs of jointed legs
abdomen: has no paired jointed legs
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What dose it mean to be entognathous?
It means that the mandeibles are enclosed by the cheeks.
found in collembola
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What dose the root word -ento- mean?
in(side)
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What dose the root word -gnath- mean?
jaw
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What dose the root word -ecto- mean?
out(side)
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What dose it mean to be ectognathous?
Mean that your mandibles are not enclosed in cheeks.
this is found in insecta.
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what is the Morphology of Collembola? (aside from the shared Hexapoda morphology)
- they posses a collophore
| - they have ocelli
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What dose the root word -collo- mean?
Glue
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What dose it mean to have ocelli
singular lensed eyes
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What is the Morphology of Insecta?
they have compund ocelli eyes.
| - some possess wings
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What is it called when a insect dose not have wings?
Apterygote
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What dose the root word -a- mean?
Without
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What is it called when a insect dose have wings?
Pterygota
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What dose the root word -pter- mean?
wing
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What are the three main life cycles of Hexpods?
Ametaboly
Hemimetaboly
holometaboly
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What is ametaboly?
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A= without
meta= change
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juveniles look exactly like adults
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what is hemimetaboly?
Hemi- partial
meta- change
wings develop over time from wing pads to full wings.
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What are the juveniles of Hemimetaboly called?
Nymphs
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What is holometaboly?
holo- entire or complete
meta -change
The animal develops wings all at once in a pupa stage.
juveniles always have a different morphology and ecology than adults.
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What are the juveniles of holometaboly called?
Larva!
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True or false:
| All hexapods have separate sexes.
True.
| there are no hermaphrodites.
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How do collembolans and apterygote insects transfer sperm?
indirectly, through spermatophores.
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What is a spermatophore?
Encapsulated package of sperm placed on a substrate.
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How do pterygote transfer sperm?
Through copulation.
| Males place sperm directly on or in the females sperm-receiving structure.
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true or false?
| Almost all hexapods are terrestrial.
True.
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What is entomology?
The study of insects.
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What is a positive effect of Hexapods
They drive insect pollination.
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What is the biggest issue facing Hexapods?
Colony-collapse disorder.
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What is the main characteristic of Myriapoda?
They have many sets of uniamerous legs.
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What dose the root word -myria- mean?
a great many.
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Are Myriapoda highly tagmatized.
Nope, they are less tagmatized.
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What are the tagmata of Myriapods?
Head: wih ocelli, mandibles, and 1 pr antennae.
Trunk: has 9-325 pairs of jointed legs.
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What is the development of Myriapods?
They are direct developers.
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what is the oldest fossil of a terrestrial animal of?
A Myriapod
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What is the common name for the class Diplopoda?
millipedes.
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What is the morpjology of Diplopoda?
They have two pairs of legs and two stigmata per segment.
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What is it called when there is a fusion of two adjacent segments?
Diplosegments
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What dose the root word -diplo- mean?
Double
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What is the common name for Chilopoda?
centipedes
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What dose the root word -cheilos- mean?
lip
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What is a scary evolutionary trait Chilopoda made to sudbue prey and fight things?
poison claws
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Where did the name Chilopoda come from?
Cuz they have a pair of modified legs behind their mouth parts.
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How many sets of legs do chilopoda have per segment?
1
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What are the most well known members of the Chelicerata?
Horseshoe crabs, scorpions, spiders, and mites
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What are the defining morphological traits of Chelicerata
They lack antenae
| they have chelicerae as main mouth parts.
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What are Chelicerae?
They are 2-3 segmented claws/fangs that are used to crush or stab things.
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What dose the root word -Chel- mean?
Claw
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What dose the root word -ceros- mean?
horn
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How many tagmata do Chelicerata have?
They have 2 main tagmata.
| the cephalothrax and abdomen
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What are the features of the Cephalpthorax within Chelicerata?
They are wholly or partly covered by a carapace
They have 6 pairs of limbs
and if they have eyes they are here.
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What are the six sets of legs found on the cephalothorax within Chelicerata?
Chelicerae (mouth parts)
Pedipalps
4 sets of legs
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What are pedipalps?
Pincers in scorpions and sensory organs in spiders.
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What is the most well known member of the Class Xiphosura?
The horseshoe crab.
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What is are the phylogenetic traits of the horseshoe crab?
They have compound eyes
They have book gills
have a long terminal spine (sword tail)
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What dose the key word -xiphos- mean?
Sword
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What dose the root word -uros- mean?
tail
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How do Xiphosura eat>
They ingest particles from the water.
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What is their developmental Juvenal stage?
Planktonic larvae
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What is the most well known member of the Class Arachnida?
Spiders
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How do Arachnida eat?
They are fluid feeders.
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What are the Araneae?
They are the spiders.
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What is one of their defining traits about there segmata?
They have tightly constructed junctions between cephalothroax and abdomen
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Araneae have ___ segmented Chelicerae
2-segmented chelicerae (fangs)
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What produces the webs made by Araneae?
Spinnerets
| located in the abdomen, they are a appendage use fro spinning silk.
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How do Araneae exchange gases?
Through tracheae and/or book lungs.
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How do Araneae catch prey>
through the use of poison glands that empty through Chelicerae
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True or false:
| Some Araneae use silk to capture prey.
True.
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Do spiders show any kind of maternal care?
Yes, they show maternal care of eggs and sometimes young.
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How do Araneae suck up sperm?
Through a pedipalp
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What is the most well known member of the Scorpiones?
The scorpions.
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What is the defining feature of the Scorpiones?
Their pedipalps are modified as grasping pincers.
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The abdomen of Scorpiones is____ segmented.
Clearly.
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What do Acari do?
they do everything and live everywhere.
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How do Acari feed?
they feed through fluid feeding or through the ingestion of solid particles.
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What are the young Acari called? and what is their defining feature?
They are called larvae and they have 3 pairs of legs (in the place of 4)
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What is so important about Acari?
They are the most economically important arachnids
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What is the most famous Acari?
ticks
