Spider, Man! | Don't Bug Me | Give Me the Common Name! | Mating Strategies | Special Structures |
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What is the number of eyes or the number of walking legs?
Eight
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What is one?
Number of pairs of antennae
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What is a pill bug or sow bug or rolly poly?
Isopoda
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What are fireflies or lightening bugs?
Flashes bioluminescent signals specific to species
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What is a telson?
These structure is another name for a tail of a crustacean
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What are the cephalothorax and abdomen?
Body regions
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What are pheromones?
These substances are secreted for communication, especially to attract mates.
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What are sea stars?
Asteroidea
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What are spiders?
After a complex mating ritual, male places web sacs of sperm into female seminal receptacles with his pedipalps
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What is a madreporite?
This structure in echinoderms is the opening to the water-vascular system
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What is the last year some in the US died from a black widow bite?
1983
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What are spiracles?
These are holes in the thorax and abdomen that lead to trachea.
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What are millipedes?
Diplopoda
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What is Echinodermata?
All members of this phylum have external fertilization and free swimming larvae
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What is Aristotle's lantern?
This structure in sea urchins has 5 teeth and is used for feeding
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What are Malpighian tubules?
These structures, also found in insects, are used for excretion
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Holometabolous or complete
This is the kind of metamorphosis that butterflies have.
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What is a lancelet?
Cephalochordate
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What are termites?
The fertile king and queen fly away to start a new colony and then lose their wings
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What is an ovipositor?
This structure in female grasshoppers allows them to bury their eggs
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What are book lungs?
This is the structure spiders use to breathe
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What is ectognathus?
This means their mouthparts are not contained
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What are barnacles?
Thecostraca
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What are moths and butterflies?
In this group of insects the female secretes a pheromone that can be picked up by a male over a great distance
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What isa notochord?
This structure in chordates is modified into part of the vertebral column in vertebrates
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