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1
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What is the largest phylum in animal kingdom

A

Anthropods

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Largest phylum 
Bilateral symmetry
Jointed appendages
Sophisticated sense organs
Exoskeleton
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Characteristics of crustaceans

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What are Anthropods skeletons made of?

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Chitin

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Can be tough or soft and flexible
Relatively impermeable to water
Flexible enough in joints to allow movement

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Anthropod skeletons

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What are the exoskeleton drawbacks?

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Relatively heavy and it doesn’t grow with the animal so the animal must molt

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Ecdysis

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Molting

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What happens during Ecdysis?

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When the exoskeleton is ready, the animal contracts muscles and takes in air and water.

Animal swells until old exoskeleton splits usually along back

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What is Ecdysis controlled and initiated by?

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Controlled by hormones produced in the head

Initiated by changes in the environment

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What are the 3 sections of the crustacean?

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Head
Thorax
Abdomen

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Sometimes the head and thorax fuse to form

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Cephalothorax

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11
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How many pairs of walking legs?

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5

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What are the shorter antennas called?

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Antennules

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13
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Anthropods have extensive cephalization…

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Compound eyes
Sophisticated brain
Antennae detect changes

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How do Anthropods respirate

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Gills, tracheal system, book gills

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What does the Anthropod nervous system contain?

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Double ventral nerve cord
Anterior brain
Ganglia (control center for body)

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Anthropods have what kind of circulatory system?

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Open

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Body fluid is called

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Hemolymph

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Anthropods have complete digestive tract that includes

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Mouth, stomach, intestine, anus, and mandible

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Mandibles open from

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Side to side

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20
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What is the reproductive system like in Anthropods?

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They are dioecious, they have internal fertilization, ostracods and Branchiopoda reproduce by parthenogenesis (eggs develop without sperm)

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21
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Subphylum Crustacea includes

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Crabs, lobsters, etc.

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22
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Marine, freshwater and terrestrial
Fused cephalothorax
2 pairs of antennae

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Crustacea

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23
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What are the classes within Crustacea?

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Maxillapoda

Malacostraca

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Barnacles and Copepods

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Maxillapoda

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Crabs, lobster, shrimp, krill

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Malacostraca

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Have flexible body plan that allows them to live in all biomes.

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Anthropods

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27
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What are Copepods

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Microscopic planktonic organisms

Important part of food web

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Sessile
Cause problems to ships by increasing drag
Filter feeders

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Barnacles

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Largest group of crustaceans
Usually 8 legs, first 2 used for feeding
2 chambered stomach

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Malacostraca

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30
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Crabs lobster shrimp

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Decapoda

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31
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5 pairs of walking legs

First pair is modified to form chelipeds which catch prey and defend animal

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Decapoda

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32
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Shrimp like animals that are filter feeders and feed on zooplankton
Most species are bioluminescent

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Krill

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33
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Scavengers
Found on bottoms
On land known as pill bugs
9 marine species

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Order Isopoda

34
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Contains 2 segments (cephalothorax and abdomen)

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Merostamata

35
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Contains only 4 species
Horseshoe crab more closely related to spiders than crabs
The blood is blue because it has cooper
Has enzyme which release a natural antibiotic to fight bacteria
Blood used to detect bacteria in medical supplies and drugs

A

Merostamata

36
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Sea spiders
Can’t spin webs
Contains 4-6 pairs of legs
1300 known species

A

Pycnogonida

37
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The process of fusion of the body regions in Anthropods

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Tagmosis

38
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Class for horseshoe crab

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Merostamata

39
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The most important order of crustaceans for human

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Decapoda

40
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Which cell layer secretes the exoskeleton of crustaceans

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Epidermis

41
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Which body region of lobster do humans eat

A

Abdomen

42
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What do you call the first pair of appendages on a horseshoe crab

A

Chelicerae

43
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Horseshoe crabs use this to turn themselves over and for defense

A

Telson

44
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Head and thorax fused

A

Cephalothorax

45
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To what body region are the legs of Decapoda attached

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Thorax

46
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Fused specialized body regions in Arthropoda

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Tagmata

47
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Which organisms feed with a large suctorial proboscis?

A

Sea spiders

48
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Molting process

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Ecdysis

49
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Molting occurs most frequently during what life cycle?

A

Larval

50
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Horseshoe crab respiratory organs are called

A

Book gills

51
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The exoskeleton of crustaceans is composed of this material

A

Chitin

52
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Chambers filled with fluid and lined with sensitive hairs that help with balance and equilibrium

A

Statocysts

53
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Most female crustaceans brood their fertilized eggs on what body region?

A

Abdomen

54
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The hard outer cuticle which covers and protects the body of a decapod

A

Carapace

55
Q

What is the first larval form for most crustaceans called

A

Zoea

56
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The ability of crustaceans to release an injured appendage

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Autonomy

57
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Structured with which barnacles feed

A

Cirri (legs)

58
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Larval stage of barnacle

A

Nauplius

59
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Excretory and osmotegulatory organs located on the head of the crayfish

A

Green glands

60
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Subclass of Copepods

A

Copepoda

61
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Subclass for barnacles

A

Cirripedia

62
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Which pair of mouth parts are jawed feet that situate and hold the food in front of the mouth

A

Maxillipeds

63
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This part of the crayfishes stomach has calcareous teeth which grind food particles

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Gastric mill

64
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The most common type of reproductive strategy used by crustaceans

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Sexual external fertilization

65
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This pair of mouth parts actually crush and grind the food so are involved in the actual ingestion

A

Mandibles

66
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The two types of barnacles are stalked and

A

Acorn

67
Q

Chelipeds are

A

Claws

68
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The abdominal appendages of lost crustaceans are used to carry eggs

A

True

69
Q

Which of these is also called a decorator crab

A

Spider crab

70
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The order in which the blue crab is found

A

Decapoda

71
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The only pelagic Decapoda

A

Shrimp

72
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When do shrimp typically migrate to the surface to feed

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Evening and predawn

73
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Crustaceans consume their cast off exoskeleton much of the time for needed protein and calcium carbonate

A

False

74
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Barnacles are always sessile

A

False

75
Q

Has an oversized claw used for combat or courtship display

A

Fiddler crab

76
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All crabs are aquatic

A

False

77
Q

The most powerful and agile swimmers of all marine crustaceans

A

Blue crabs

78
Q

Inhabit abandoned Gastropoda shells

A

Hermit crabs

79
Q

Spiny lobster are protected from April to the end of July

A

True

80
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Used by farmers as livestock feed until it was discovered that it caused the meat to taste bad

A

Horseshoe crab

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