Exam 2 Study Guide Flashcards
What is the world’s most deadly animal?
Mosquito because they transmit disease
Use piercing stylets to suck the fluids of algae, plants, and small invertebrates
Tardigrades
Live at the top of the Himalayas, the bottom of deep seas, inside mud volcanoes, rainforests, arctic ice, etc.!
Tardigrades
What is stabilizing natural selection?
Selection favors the intermediate/ average phenotype. Ex. sickle-cell anemia
Flattened with abdominal pincers, fast moving, and found under leaf litter, fallen logs, and in damps areas
earwigs
What is obligate mutualism?
Species that cannot live in the absence of its mutualistic partner
Long skinny limbs that look like twigs or flattened limbs that look like leaves
walking sticks
How do bombardier beetles defend themselves?
Spray a foul-smelling and caustic chemical out their abdomen.
What sort of reproduction do insects have?
Dioecious w/internal fertilization
What is the purpose of blood in insects?
distribute hormones, nutrients, and waste products, but NOT gases!
What is Batesian mimicry?
Harmless mimic evolves to look like a harmful/toxic model species, like king snakes and coral snakes
How is evolution measured?
the change in allele frequencies over time
What is an adaptation?
Trait that helps individuals to survive and/or reproduce
All insects have:
Three body segments
One pair of antennae
Three pairs of legs
wingless insect?
fleas
What are the big four orders of insect?
- Coleoptera (beetles)
- Lepidoptera (moths & butterflies)
- Diptera (flies, mosquitos, crane flies)
- Hymenoptera (bees, wasps, ants)
Survive the 6x the pressure of the Mariana trench and the vacuum of space!
Tardigrades
4 types of mouthparts
- Chewing
- Piercing
- Siphoning
- Sponging
What is an advantage of being holometabolous?
Allows larvae and adults to eat different foods, reducing competition. With less competition for food, you can fit more individuals in your environment!
Why are male antennae often larger?
To sense female sex pheromones
used for courtship in some moths
When will many insects pupate?
over winter months
Segments of the insects?
- Head- sensory & feeding
- Thorax- locomotion
- Abdomen- digestion & reproduction
How old was Darwin when he was hired to the HMS Beagle?
22
Mouth shape in insects is indicative of what?
foods they eat
What is commensalism?
One species is benefited (+), while the other is neither harmed nor benefited (0)
What happens to monarchs that eat the toxin from milkweed?
They become distasteful to predators
What do the big four orders of insect have in common?
Holometabolous
What are the 4 traits of Arthropods?
- Ecdysis
- Chitinous exoskeleton
- Jointed legs
- Bilateral symmetry
What likely killed Darwin?
Changas disease from the Kissing Bug in Argentina
T/F all insects go through metamorphosis?
False
Compound insect eye characteristics:
- Poor image resolution
- Detect fast movements
- eyes of bees and mantises form sharper images (active pollinators and hunters)
What is coevolution?
When two or more species reciprocally influence each other’s evolution
What are dipterans (flies and mosquitos) critical for?
decomposition of feces and dead animals
How was Wallace woke?
against eugenics and supporter of women’s suffrage
How do bed bugs mate?
Traumatic insemination
What is acquired inheritance?
Changes acquired over an individual’s lifetime would be passed to offspring
What are some parasitic species of insect?
- Fleas
- Pubic lice
- Bed bugs
What are some diseases mosquitos transmit?
- Malaria
- Yellow Fever
- Equine enchephalitis
- Zika Virus
What is sexual selection?
Differential reproductive success among individuals in the population
What is the more ansectral form of development in insects?
hemimetabolous
Long hindlegs for jumping, many camouflage well in grasses and leaves
Crickets, grasshoppers, and katydids