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| Which of the following characteristics would be required for two individuals to be in the same species? |
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They must be able to mate, able to produce offspring
offspring must be able to produce offspring |
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| If we discuss a species of insect as being cosmopolitan, in general we mean that |
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| it occurs throughout most of the world, especially where humans occur |
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| one pair of antennae, six legs, and a body divided into three distinct regions |
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| egg, immature (Called Larva), pupa (cocoon), adult |
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| which of the following characteristics is not found in the chelicerate arthropods |
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| they have a body divided into three regions, the head, thorax, and abdomen |
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| All scorpions are ______ and most are active _______ |
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| predators and during night |
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| An arthropod (or other animal) that is active at night is said to be |
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| The Invasion of living tissue (flesh) by fly maggots |
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| which of the following could most like cause envenomization |
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| a yellowjacket wasp or honey bee |
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| a body with a head, thorax, abdomen, the thorax with six legs |
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| Siphoning mouthparts are found in |
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| Best defined as "growth without change" |
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| The Immature is termed a larva in insects with |
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| What type of mouthparts are found in spiders, scorpions, and ticks |
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| If you would eat food that had been contaminated with bacteria that had been brought to the food by an insect, this is most probably a type of |
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| mechanical transmission of the pathogen |
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| Germ theory is the idea that _______. Germ theory was proposed by_______. |
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| "germs" or pathogens are the cause of the disease; Marcello Malpighi |
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| Some disease pathogens can be moved through generations of the vector by passing from the mother to her young (in the egg). This is referred to as |
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| When the first "explorers" traveled to parts of the world that they had not previously visited there are often severe medical consequences. The primary reason is because |
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All the Above:
-the explorers brought arthropods with them that were new to the region of the world being explored
-brought diseases with them to which the native populations had no natural immunity
-brought diseases with them to which the native populations had no acquired immunity |
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| An insect that feeds on plants is said to be |
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| a disease the casual agent of which is vectored by an arthropod |
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| 1. What does CDC stand for? |
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| CDC stands for Centers for Disease Control. |
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| 2. What are the requirements that organisms need to meet to place them in the same species? |
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| Organisms of the same species must be able to mate, produce fertile offspring, and their offspring can produce offspring. |
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| 4. How many sections are the segments of an insect divided into? Remember your grasshopper illustration and be able to label the parts that we discussed when we did the grasshopper class. |
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| There are eleven sections of an insect that are divided into three main parts; the head, the thorax, and the abdomen. |
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| is the invasion of living host tissue. It is the invasion of living flesh by bott flies, and fly maggots. |
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| irritation of the skin through toxins or hairs—spread from Beatles, caterpillars, or tarantulas: their hair is toxic and can rub your skin wrong. |
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| injection of venom when an arthropod stings or bites (spiders, wasps, ants, bees, scorpions). Production of toxins when touched or ingested (blister Beatles and certain caterpillars)→antigenic compounds in saliva. |
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| the egg laying device on insects |
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| What are 4 way which arthropods are valued to humans |
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- Pollinators
-Provide non food products like silk
-Population control
-scavenger/decomposer |
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| Ways arthropods are detrimental to humans |
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| destroy plants, announce/psychosis, vector plant diseases, bite/feed on tissue |
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| The study of the distribution and determinance of disease prevalence in population of organisms |
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| human beings cannot pass it to another species |
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| shows signs of the disease |
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| little or no response to disease |
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| SIngle celled organisms, vertebras do not usually require strong immunity to protozoas |
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| immunity responses in human weak. Tapeworms, flukes, round worms, spiny-headed worms. Filarial worms. |
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| often placed under bacteria. May develop immunity, dependent on cells for growth: typhus group, spotted fever group, scrub typhus group |
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| Irritating bristles used as defense mechanism used by plants arachnids and some caterpillars |
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