Arthropods Incredibly Diverse Animals
Arthropods Objectives
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List the characteristics of animals in Phylum Arthropoda.
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Provide examples of crustacean, insect, and arachnid arthropods.
If you are looking for animals to study, you are likely to encounter arthropods.
Arthropods rule Kingdom Animalia, at least in term of number of different species.
This section starts with a video overview of Phylum Arthropoda.
The organisms in these two videos are arthropods classified in Subphylum ________________.
answer: Crustacea (the crustaceans)
Arthropods do not have an internal skeleton, they have an _____.
To grow substantially in size, an arthropods has to molt or shed its exoskeleton. This has risks, some organisms lose appendages in the process, or get stuck in the exoskeleton and die or are eaten.
Insects have _____ body segments; spiders have two body segments.
The pictured arachnid is not a spider, it has only one body segment. This is one of over 6,000 species of “harvestmen” arachnid arthropods.
Arthropods have _____ eyes; each eye is a separate visual receptor.
Would you like a quick arthropod summary? Here is a poster overview.
We will be meeting more arthropods in guides to come.
This is the end of the Data Analysis Guide. Content from this guide and corresponding lecture as well as the Data Collection Guide are assessed on the weekly quiz.
Check your knowledge. Can you:
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list the characteristics of animals in Phylum Arthropoda?
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provide examples of crustacean, insect, and arachnid arthropods?
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