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Exam 4 Flashcards

1
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What are the 5 typical stages in the decomposition process of an animal?

A
  • fresh
  • bloated
  • decay
  • post - decay
  • skeletal
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2
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List 2 things that can alter the rate of development of fly maggots in a corpse

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  • temperature
  • location of corpse
  • drugs
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3
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List 3 things that can be revealed about a crime from insect evidence.

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  • Post - mortem interval
  • location of crime/movement of corpse
  • presence of wounds
  • presence of drugs
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4
Q

Where most Monarch butterflies from eastern North America spend the winter

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Mountains in south west mexico (forests)

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5
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A non-directional response by an insect to an environmental stimulus that involves a change in the rate of locomotion

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kinesis

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6
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a directional response by an insect to an environmental stimulus

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taxis

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7
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The technical. 3-part name for the response shown by a female cricket moving toward a chirping male

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positive phonotaxis

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8
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The insect in a communication interaction that is producing a signal

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signaler

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9
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the behavior of performed by the insect of question 11 (the insect in a communication interaction that is producing a signal - signaler)

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display

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10
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An emitted chemical signal

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pheromone

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11
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two advantages of the mode of communication of question #13

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specific, private
cheap, directional

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12
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Symbol used by Wilson & Bossert for the release rate of a chemical signal

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13
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2 advantages of visual signals

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  • informative
  • moderately inexpensive
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14
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The most famous insects that are bioluminescent

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fireflies (lampyrid beetles)

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15
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two advantages of acoustic signals

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  • long-distance
  • can be used day or night
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16
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two ways in which acoustic signals are especially costly, compared to other communication modes

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  • metabolically demanding
  • attract rivals, predators, parasitoids
17
Q

How a honey bee dance indicates the direction of a food source

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angle to “up” of the straight run

18
Q

how a honeybee dance indicates the distance to a food source

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length of straight run

19
Q

two special characteristics of the honeybee dance communication system, compared to other animal communication systems

A
  • referential displacement
  • symbolic, multi -dimensional
20
Q

Hamilton’s Rule for when altruistic behavior is favored, as in eusocial species

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when rB>C

21
Q

the two forms of sexual selection

A
  • mate competition
  • mate choice
22
Q

The factor that Robert Trivers said, if different between the sexes, led to the typical difference in “sex roles”

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parental investment

23
Q

condition in eusocial insects in which different castes are the same morphologically but perform different behaviors

A

polyethism

24
Q

2 things that male insects often fight to defend

A

females directly
territory with female required resources

25
Q

two forms of “sperm competition” seen in insects

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sperm replacement, mate guarding

26
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2 “alternative tactics” sometimes seen in subordinate male insects

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satellites
female mimicry

27
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two different kinds of “nuptial gifts” obtained by female insects from males

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food (prey item)
spermatophore

28
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the three defining characteristics of eusociality

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  • the overlap of generations
  • cooperative brood care
  • sterile workers
29
Q

one way in which insects affect human health that does not involve them being vectors

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stings, allergies, etc

30
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disease transmission by an insect vector in which the pathogen does not reproduce inside the insect

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mechanical

31
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disease transmission by an insect vector in which the pathogen does reproduce inside the insect

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biological

32
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one disease which is only occasionally transmitted by insects

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typhoid, etc

33
Q

insect vector of typhus

A

human body louse

34
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insect vector of African sleeping sickness

A

female tsetse fly

35
Q

insect vector of malaria

A

female Anopheles Mosquitos

36
Q

Insect vector of bubonic plague

A

fleas, esp. oriental rat flea

37
Q

most important mechanism of transmission of Yersinia pestis from the insect vector into humans

A

“recoil” from proventriculus

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