| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| Digestive and reproduction section | Abdomen | 100%
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| Innervates eyes, antennae, and labrum, processes signals that arrive from the body | Brain | 100%
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| Brain and series of ganglia joined by paired longitudinal nerve cords interconnected network of nerve cells, information processing, behavavior coordination | Central nervous system | 100%
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| Chemical stimuli, taste/smell | Chemosensilla | 100%
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| Nitrogen containing polysaccharide, repeating units of monosaccharides to form chains, grouped into bundles, bundles aligned parallel to make sheets, deposited at different angles for strength | Chitin | 100%
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| An aggregation of ommatidium, each acting as a single facet of the eye | Compound eye | 100%
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| Produces Juvenile Hormone | Corpora Allata | 100%
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| Temporary food storage area | Crop | 100%
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| Procuticle and Epicuticle | Cuticle | 100%
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| Certain number of molts and then ends at adult stage | Determinate growth | 100%
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| The breakdown of food to extract nutrients and other substances for use by cells for energy, growth, or reproduction | Digestion | 100%
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| Moves food into storage area | Esophagous | 100%
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| The process of eliminating metabolic waste | Excretion | 100%
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| Integument of the insect, external, hardened, cuticular skeleton to which muscles are attached internally, barrier against desiccation, provides structure/support, surface for internal muscle attachment, protection from damage and infection, sensory interface with environment | Exoskeleton | 100%
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| Produce secretions that surround and protect eggs | Female accessory glands | 100%
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| Ingestion, storage, grinding, transport of food to the next region | Foregut | 100%
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| Challenge of exoskeleton | Growth | 100%
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| Sensory and ingestive body section | Head | 100%
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| Incomplete metamorphosis | Hemimetabolous | 100%
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| Insect "blood", plasma with water minerals vitamins proteins and other macromolecules, free moving cells, not involved in oxygen transport | Hemolymph | 100%
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| 3 pairs of legs, 3 tagmata (head, thorax, abdomen), one pair of antennae | Hexapoda | 100%
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| Absorption of water, salts, essential nutrients prior to feces elimination | Hindgut | 100%
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| Complete metamorphosis | Holometabolous | 100%
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| Continue molting, no terminal molt | Indeterminate growth | 100%
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| Form of insect between molts | Instar | 100%
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| Determines the body form/outcome of the molt, inhibits development of adult characteristics | Juvenile Hormone | 100%
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| Lower lip | Labium | 100%
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| Produce seminal fluid, spermataphore | Male accessory glands | 100%
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| Jaws that cut/macerate food | Mandibles | 100%
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| Accessory jaws that assist mandibles in processing food | Maxillae | 100%
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| Mechanical stimuli, pressurized, sound/touch/vibrations | Mechanosensilla | 100%
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| Soft, flexible cuticle without sclerotization | Membrane | 100%
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| Relatively abrupt change in body form and physiology between immature and adult stages | Metamorphosis | 100%
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| Digestive enzymes secreted, absorption of digestion products | Midgut | 100%
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| 1. Apolysis2. Epidermal cells secrete new epicuticle 3. Old endocuticle digested and absorbed 4. Remnant of old cuticle separates/opens along weak line (suture) 5. Ecdysis & Exuvium 6. Expansion 7. Procuticle differentiates into endo- and exo- cuticle | Molting | 100%
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| The formation of new cuticle and shedding of old cuticle | Molting | 100%
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| Hemolymph fills body cavity, does not travel in veins and arteries | Open system | 100%
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| Sensory to sample food before ingestion | Palps | 100%
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| Elongated maxilae that extends by blood pressure | Proboscis | 100%
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| Chitin microfibers surrounded by matrix of protein | Procuticle | 100%
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| Winged adult insects | Pterygotes | 100%
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| Corpora Cardiaca releases this to start molting process by activating prothoracic glands to secrete ecdysone | PTTH | 100%
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| Gas exchange, absorbing O2 and expelling CO2 | Respiration | 100%
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| Obtain nutrients from decomposing plant/animal biomass | Saprophages | 100%
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| Stiffening of the cuticle by cross-linkage of protein chains | Sclerotization | 100%
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| Bottom plate | Sternum | 100%
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| Specialized body regions | Tagmata | 100%
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| Locomotion section | Thorax | 100%
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| Internal tubular element through which air moves | Trachea | 100%
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| Extinct subphylum of Insects | Trilobita | 100%
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| Typically stimulates molting | Weight | 100%
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| No metamorphosis, non-insect hexapods and apterygote insects | Ametabolous | 0%
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| Separation of cuticle from epidermis | Apolysis | 0%
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| Non-winged adult insects | Apterygotes | 0%
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| Seperates body cavity (hemocoel) from integument | Basement membrane | 0%
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| No antennae, 4 pairs of legs, 2 body regions/tagmata (cephalothorax, abdomen) | Chlicerata | 0%
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| Beeswax/honey, shellac, dye, silk | Commercial products from insects | 0%
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| Feed on excrement | Coprophages | 0%
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| 2 body regions (cephalothorax, abdomen), 2 pairs antennae, different amounts of leg pairs for different examples | Crustacea | 0%
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| Running legs, long and slender | Cursorial | 0%
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| Light sensitive cells without optical system | Dermal detection | 0%
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| Pumps hemolymph from thorax and abdomen into head | Dorsal organ | 0%
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| Escape from old cuticle | Ecdysis | 0%
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| Undifferentiated portion of the procuticle | Endocuticle | 0%
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| Wings develop internally | Endoterygote | 0%
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| Cement layer protects from abrasion, wax layer creates barrier to water movements | Epicuticle | 0%
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| Single layer secretory tissue, produces cuticle layers | Epidermis | 0%
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| Cross-linked proteins, creating rigid plates, darkens | Exocuticle | 0%
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| Wings develop externally | Exoterygote | 0%
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| Old cuticle remnant, exocuticle and epicuticle | Exuvium | 0%
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| Moving through soil, large forelegs with claws | Fossorial | 0%
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| Walking legs, femur and tibia same length | Grassorial | 0%
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| Body cavity between alimentary canal and integument | Hemocoel | 0%
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| Chemicals sent from cells in one part of an organism to cells in another part of the same individual | Hormones | 0%
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| Labium of proboscis extend and form membranous lobe | Labellum | 0%
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| Upper lip | Labrum | 0%
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| Seperate waste products to be excreted from nutrients that are returned to "blood" | Malpighian tubules | 0%
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| Chewing mouthparts | Mandibulata | 0%
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| Glossa | maxilae and labium form tongue | 0%
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| Centipede: 2 body regions (head, trunk), one pair of antennae, one pair of legs per segment, legs extend laterallyMillipede: 2 body regions (head, trunk), one pair antennae, 2 par of legs per segment, legs extend underneath trunk | Myriapoda | 0%
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| Swimming legs, often flattened and hairy | Natatorial | 0%
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| Plate on insect's back | Notum | 0%
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| Simple eye that detects changes in light intensity | Oceli | 0%
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| An individual unit of the eye composed of a lens and receptor cell | Ommatidium | 0%
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| Protects digestive cells without inhibiting nutrient absorption | Peritrophic membrane | 0%
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| Pumps/pushes food into gut | Pharynx | 0%
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| Vision, detects light | Photosensilla | 0%
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| Can digest polyethelene | Plastivore | 0%
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| Side plate | Pleuron | 0%
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| Grasping hair shafts | Prehensile | 0%
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| Cuticular plates that grind solid food | Proventriculous | 0%
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| Seizing prey, enlarged forelegs | Raptorial | 0%
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| A rubber-like or elastic protein in some insect cuticle | Resilia | 0%
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| Jumping legs, enlarged femur of hindlegs, long femur and tibia | Saltatorial | 0%
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| Sclerotized plate of body wall | Sclerite | 0%
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| A cuticular sensory organ, inverted | Sensillium | 0%
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| Hair-like/spine cuticular extensions | Setae | 0%
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| Stores sperm until needed for egg fertilization | Spermatheca | 0%
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| Secretions to nourish stored sperm | Spermathecal gland | 0%
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| External opening to tracheal tubes | Spiracle | 0%
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| Slender and long form hollow needle with two channels and a sheath | Stylet | 0%
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| Innervates mandibles, maxillae, labium | Suboesophageal ganglion | 0%
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| Fin tubule that connects to respiring tissue | Trachaele | 0%
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| Primary site for enzyme digestion of food and absorption of nutrients | Ventriculus | 0%
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| Feed on wood | Xylophages | 0%
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