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Exam II Bio II
Inertebrates IV
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Key features of crustaceans | nearly all marine, crayfish are freshwater, pillbugs are terrestrial, they have specialized bramous appendages, have two antennae that are like appendages, have abdominal appendages, some are planktonic |
| Key features of terrestrial crustaceans and reason for studying | they have kept their gills, the gills are covered in a supersaturated fluid (reason) |
| Key features of insects | many subgroups because phylum is so big, they are mostly terrestrial, several freshwater, very few marine, can go through either incomplete or complete metamorphosis, |
| What does it mean to be hemimetabolous? | The organism goes through gradual molting stages for growth (grasshoppers) |
| What does it mean to be homometabolous? | The organism instantaneously goes from the maggot stage to the adult stage (butterflies, beetles) |