Monday, April 21, 2014

SI for Today

Below is a link to the powerpoint we looked at today in SI. Don't forget to study the molting hormone graph!! Good luck.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/9rp7pmym3wb6d00/Exam%204%20Review.pptx

Questions from 4.21.14


  1. If an insect were the size of a dinosaur what problems would it face?
  2. What type of eye do insects have and how is it adventageous for survival?
  3. What is the individual unit of an insect called?
  4. T/F - For the survival of both organisms plants and insects have become partners in evolution.
  5. What time period did plants and insects form a partnership?
  6. T/F - Unlike humans, insects can see ultraviolet light.
  7. What is the most successful of the nocturnal insects?
  8. What is the specially evolved character that moths have to evade bats?
  9. T/F - The pupa of the swollowtail butterfly exhibits aposomatic coloration.
  10. The larvae of the swollowtail butterfly determine the color they become based on what trait of the "branch"?
  11. What are some of the traits that make insects so successful?
  12. What type of living is exhibited in bees, termintes and ants?
  13. How do bees communicate?
  14. What unique behavior do some honey bees use to defend from wasps or other large predators?
  15. Some scientists believe that bees communicate not only by the movement but also by _____________?
  16. T/F - Ants are "preprogramed" to do specific jobs and are not told what to do by the queen.
  17. T/F - In rainforests leaf cutter ants take more foliage than any other animal.
  18. T/F - Ants are a society of males born to a single female queen
  19. Ant "job assignments" are determined by what trait?

Saturday, April 19, 2014

Exam 4 table for study

Subphylum
Class
Order
Trilobita
Extinct for 200 million years
Chelicerata
Crustacea
Merostomata
Arachnida
Pyconogonida
(Greek-thick knees or all legs)
Malacostraca
Maxillopoda
Branchiopoda
Decapoda
Euphausiacea
Amphipoda
Isopoda
Copepoda (subclass)
Cirripedia
Anostraca
Cladocera
Common Names
Trilobites
No living spp.
Horseshoe crab (Limulus)
Spiders, scorpions, mites, ticks
Sea spiders

Crab, crayfish, shrimp, lobster
Krill

Parasitic,  pill bugs
Calanus, Cyclops, Diaptomus
Barnacles
Fairy & Brine shrimp
Water fleas - Daphnia
Appendages
Chelicerae
Pedipalps
Mandibles
Antennae
Walking legs
# of pairs
1-antennae
4-leglike appendages
# of pairs
1-chelicera
1-pedipalps
4-legs
0-antennae
0-mandible
# of pairs
1-chelicera
1-pedipalps
4-legs
0-antennae
0-mandible
# of pairs
1-chelicera
1-pedipalps
1-oviger-male
5-6- legs
# of pairs
2-antennae
1-mandible
2-maxillae
3-maxilliped
1-cheliped (also walking leg)
5-walking legs  
(1 is cheliped)
3-5-swimmerets (first in male=copulatory)
0-maxillipeds



# of pairs
1-2- antennae
1-maxillipeds (uniramous)
4-thoracic swimming appendages (biramous)

Flattened & leaf-like legs: chief respiratory organs
Tagmata




Head
(cephalon)
Trunk
Pygidium
Cephalothorax (carapace-shell)
Opisthosoma (abdomen)
Prosoma (cephalothorax)
Opisthosoma (abdomen)
Cephalon (small head)
Thorax
Abdomen (reduced)
Decapod(fused)
Head -5 (fused) somites
Thorax-8 (fused) somites
Abdomen-6 somites
Body-dorso-ventrally flattened

Head-reduced
No Abdomen
Thoracic legs are long with hair-like setae


Cuticle
Carapace
Carapace
Sensory hairs

Carapace
No-Car
No-Car
No-Car
Lack carapace
Calcareous plates


Sense Organs
Compound eyes
Compound eye & simple eye
8 simple eyes
4 simple eyes
Compound eyes



Simple, median eye



Unique structures

Telson, Carapace, hinge, gills,
Book lung, spinnerets
Proboscis
Crayfish - rostrum, posterior telson, carapace, uropod, antennal gland (green gland)
Free-living consumer- marine plankton &freshwater plankton
Parasitic forms-  unrecognizable
Parasitic= kentrogon stage


Reproduction


Dioecious
Dioecious
Dioecious



Hermaphroditic – big penis
Monoecious


Partheno-genesis – w/out males
Larvae




Zoeaà megalopaà crab
Crayfish=direct development



Nauplius
Nauplii
Cyprid-bivalve carapace
Gradual metamor-phosis
Direct develop-ment
Habitat
Marine
Marine
Terrestrial
Marine
Aquatic


Both





Subphylum
Class
Order
Uniramia
Chilopoda
Diplopoda
Hexapoda


Insecta









Common Names









Appendages
Chelicerae
Pedipalps
Mandibles
Antennae
Walking legs









Tagmata













Cuticle









Sense Organs









Unique Structures












Reproduction










Larvae









Habitat