Objectives

• Describe adaptive features of arthropods, including exoskeletons
• Describe crustacean appendages and the main crustacean groups
• Describe the adaptations and diversity of arachnids
• Contrast incomplete and complete metamorphosis
• Describe insect adaptations
• Summarize the shared resources and interactions of arthropods and humans, including transmission of diseases

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Assignment Checklist:
(these are the assignments you must turn in)

• 7.01
• 7.02
• 7.03
• 7.04

Vocabulary

• arthropod
• exoskeleton
• chitin
• appendage
• segmentation
• crustacean
• cephalothorax
• abdomen
• carapace
• mandible
• chelicerate
• arachnid
• incomplete metamorphosis
• complete metamorphosis

Schedule (you may work ahead of schedule)

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