Exam 3 Part 3
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 joint | In the word arthropod, the prefix means ___ and the suffix means foot. |
| foot | In the word arthropod, the prefix means joint, and the suffix means ___. |
| chitin | The exoskeleton of arthropods is made of ___. |
| open | Unlike earthworms, arthropods have an ___ circulatory system. |
| cephalothorax | Some arthropods, such as spiders and crayfish, have two of their segments fused together to form a ______. |
| crustacea | Daphnia, copepods, barnacles, crabs, and shrimp all belong to subphylum _____. |
| Archnida | Members of the class ___ have four pairs of walking legs, while members of the class isecta have three pairs of walking legs. |
| Isecta | Members of the class Archnida have four pairs of walking legs, while members of the class ____ have three pairs of walking legs. |
| green glands | Malphigian tubules in insects and ____ in crayfish are both designed to remove waste products from the blood. |
| ovipositor | One way to distinguish between male and female insects is by observing if an ____ is present. |
| Hymenoptera | Bees are members of order ____. |
| Coleoptera | Beetles are members of order _______. |
| Diptera | Mosquitoes and flies are members of order ___. |
| Lepidoptera | Butterflies and moths are members of order ____. |
| Vertebrata | Most animals classified under phylum Chordata belong to subphylum _____. |
| exoskeletons | Arthropods have _____, and vertebrates have endoskeletons. |
| skull | The axial skeleton consists of the ribs, vertebral column, and ___. |
| hemoglobin | Almost all vertebrates have blood cells that contain ____. |
| capillaries | Arteries carry blood away from the heart, veins carry blood back to the heart, and _____ are branches of the arteries and veins. |
| omnivorous | Carnivorous vertebrates eat meat, herbivorous vertebrates eat plants, and ____ vertebrates, like most humans, eat plants and animals. |
| ovoviviparous | Oviparous vertebrates produce offspring from eggs, viviparous vertebrates produce live offspring that were nurtured through a placenta, and ____ organisms, such as mosquitofish and guppies, produce live offspring which were not nurtured through a placenta. |
| poikilotherms | Cold-blooded vertebrates are referred to as ectotherms or _____. |
| olfactory | The _____ lobes receive impulses from sense receptors in the nostril. |
| cerebrum | The cerebellum cordinates muscle activity, and the _____ controls the activity. |
| innate | An organism develops conditioned behavior patterns, but is born with ___ behavior patters. |
| instincts | Behaviors that an animal is born with (such as nest building in birds), but really seem more like intelligent behaviors, are called _____.. |
| swim bladder | Oil in the shark's liver is used to regulate buoyancy. Bony fishes use their ____ to regulate buoyancy. |
| denticles | A bony fishes' body is usually covered with layers of scales, while a shark's body is covered with ____. |
| Milt | During spawning, female fishes release eggs (roe), and male fishes release sperm (_____).. |
| caudal | The tail fin on a fish is also known as the ____ fin. |
| lateral line | The ____ of a fish senses vibrations in the water molecules that touch it. It has a similar function to our ear, which senses vibrations in air molecules. |
| two | A fish as a ____-chambered heart, and a frog has a three chambered heart. |
| three | A fish as a two-chambered heart, and a frog has a ___- chambered heart. |
| fat bodies | A frog uses its ____ to help regulte its buoyancy. |
| estivate | Amphibians may hibernate during periods of extreme cold, or they may ____ during periods of extreme heat. |
| tympanic | Frogs use their ____ membrane to hear. |
| smell | The Jacobson's organs aid a snake's sense of ____. |
| amniotic | Reptiles produce ___ eggs, which differ from the soft, jelly-like eggs of fishes and amphibians. |
| neurotoxin | Snakes produce ____, which affect the nervous system, or hermotoxins which destroy red blood cells and blood vessels. |
| hemotoxins | Snakes produce neurotoxins, which affects the nervous system, or ____, which destroy red blood cells and blood vessels. |
| operculum | Bony fishes have a movable ____ that covers the gills, while sharks just have immovable gill slits. |
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