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Arthropods Flashcards

1
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Arthropoda is a phylum belonging to which superphylum?

A

Ecdysozoa

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What phylum do Ecdysozoa encompass?

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Arthropoda, Onychophora and Tardigrada

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3
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What 4 extant subphyla can arthropoda be split into?

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Hexapoda, Crustacea, Myriapoda and Chelicerata

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4
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Marine Crustacea provide the key trophic link between which 2 trophic levels?

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Primary producers and higher level consumers

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Why are chelicerates called chelicerates?

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Due to ‘pincers’ on HEAD

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When did arthropods first emerge?

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Approx. 540 mya

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Defining characters of arthropods

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Segmentation, jointed appendages + exoskeleton

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8
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What is tagmosis?

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the grouping of segments with similar functions/structures

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9
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Chelicerates fused head with thorax to form what?

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Cephalothorax

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10
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what is name for segments of Appendages?

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Articles

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What is arthropod cuticle made from?

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Chitin

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12
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What is sclerotization?

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Where tanning leads to cross linking and stronger properties of arthropod cuticle exoskeleton

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13
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What is ecdysis?

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periodic moulting of exoskeleton

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14
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What is a negative of moulting?

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Vunerability- 80-90% arthropod mortality linked to moulting

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15
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What are the 5 major subgroups of chelicerata?

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Spiders, scorpions, mites + tcks, horse she crabs, sea spider

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16
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Name for group with hexapods and crustacea together?

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Pancrustacea

17
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Are crustacea monophyletic or paraphyletic?

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paraphyletic

18
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What does paraphyletic mean?

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descended from a common evolutionary ancestor or ancestral group, but not including all the descendant groups.

19
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What does polyphyletic mean?

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derived from more than one common evolutionary ancestor or ancestral group and therefore not suitable for placing in the same taxon.

20
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What are the major classes of crustacea recognised?

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cephalocardia, Malacostracca + maxillopoda (polyphyletic), branchiopoda, ostracoda

21
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What is a ramus?

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an article branch

hence biramous and uniramous appendages

22
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What is characteristic of indirect crustacea development?

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uses larval stage ( often nauplius larvae)

23
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What deos apterygota refer to?

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2 separate clades of wingless insects- also ametabolous development

24
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What does ametabolous mean?

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insect development in which there is no metamorphosis and immature stages appear very similar to the adults, except that they lack genitalia

25
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How would you describe pterygota?

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2 pairs of wings and 4 superorders

26
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What are the 4 superorders of pterygota?

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Holometabola (beetles, flies, bees, ants…),
Paraneoptera (true bugs, lice..),
Polyneoptera (grasshoppers, termites…)
Paleoptera (mayflies, dragonflies…)

27
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Describe Holometabolous development

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egg-larva-pupa-adult

28
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Describe Hemimetabolous development

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egg-nymph-adult

29
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What are the 4 types of specialised mouthpart appendages + examples

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Lapping (honeybee), Chewing (grasshopper), siphoning (butterfly), piercing (mosquito)

30
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How many times are wings thought to have evolved in insects?

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once

31
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How are wings thought to have evolved?

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de novo- not specialised appendages

32
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Flight is a cycle of which 2 strokes?

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Power stroke (down and forward) and recovery stroke (up and back)

33
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What do adult structures develop from in holometabolous metamorphosis?

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Imaginal discs

34
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What is dipause?

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a period of suspended development in an insect, other invertebrate, or mammal embryo, especially during unfavourable environmental conditions.

35
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Give 3 factors conrtibuting to arthropod success

A

1- adaptations for terrestrial existance
2- Co-evolution with angiosperms
3- Eusociality

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