Entomology Final Quiz Questions

The Hopi used the butterfly in all of these aspects of culture except

Cuisine

Which two adjectives best describe the ways in which the fly is represented in the Bible and the Torah

Evil or Satanic

How do fables differ from parables

Fables feature plants, animals or inanimate objects as the major players while parables uses humans.

Which of the following statements is not true about stridulation

All insects do it.

Lesser was not around to see the scientific resolution of the spontaneous generation debate by Pasteur. So how did he reach the correct conclusion that insects reproduced sexually like most other animals

Genesis 1 states that after God created each organism, he gave them the faculty of reproducing their like (own kind). Therefore, insects reproduced like other animals.

Why is Claude Bernard important to biology

He performed experiments with live animals that allowed him to elucidate the role of the pancreas and the liver in the digestion.

Which of the following is a difference between hemimetabolous vs. holometabolous insects

Holometabolous insects have a pupal stage but hemimetabolous insects don't.

What fine point of biology did the Navajo creation myth finally explain after dragging us through five separate worlds and lots of different insect people

How cicadas got spiracles.

Which of the following examples, encapsulated in natural theology, is attributed to Paley

If you saw a watch lying on the ground and examined it, its complexity would lead you to conclude that it was created by a higher intelligence.

In what ways were insects used in the Bible and Torah

In diverse ways including literal, metaphorical and commentaries on human behavior.

In both humans and insects, digestion begins where

In mouth were enzymes are released in saliva.

Recalling the Arachne myth of Greek literature, what human trait was being addressed in the myth

In other words, why was Arachne punished? pride or hubris

If you had to pick one order of insects that has been used in popular music more than any other order, it would be

Lepidoptera (butterflies and moths).

How did Lesser deal with the fact that insects are often the cause of great human misery

Lesser said "If God meant that animals should live within us, they must be necessary for our welfare. Lesser noted that the trials caused by insects and the suffering they caused would bring us closer to God. Lesser pointed out that there is social justice in this because rich and poor people alike were stricken by insects that cause disease and other problems.

Which of the following is not true about Fredriech Christian Lesser

Lesser's book was drawn, in large part, from Paley's more successful book on Natural Theology.

Which insect order is especially well known for its ability to produce sound via stridulation

Orthoptera (grasshoppers and crickets)

We have talked about the ways in which insects are used in music. What is a reasonable definition of music

any rhythmic sequence of sound with defined tones, melodies and harmonies.

The word _______ is the term that describes the separation of the old cuticle from the underlying epidermal cells

apolysis

Which of the following highly improbably things have been reported by Delusionary Parasitosis patients

bugs start out as black specks that morph into white globules once in the body. bugs hatch under the skin and then crawl into the digestive system and re-enter the skin. bugs bite through the socks, and then chew through the feet through which they invade the whole body.

Spermathecae (spermatheca, singular) are found in

female insects.

The critical criterion for determining whether it is alright to eat an insect both in th Qu'ran and the Torah is

having jointed legs for hopping on the ground.

Which of the following is NOT a mechanism that can be used by aquatic insects to breathe in water

open circulatory system

Which group of words accurately describes the insect respiratory system

passive diffusion, spiracle, tracheole

Besides providing sperm for fertilization, accessory fluids from the male also

provide energy for the sperm, provide lubrication, or can induce the female to oviposit the eggs.

Proverbs 30

24 says "Ants are creatures of little strength, yet they store up their food in the summer." Similarly, Proverbs 6?6 says "Go to the ant, you sluggard, consider its ways and be wise. It has no commander, no overseer or ruler. Yet, it stores in the summer and gathers its food at harvest." In these passages, ants are being used? as exemplars of good behavior, as they might be in a fable or myth, to admonish humans to mend their ways

The term that means acceptable in Islam is halal. The term for unacceptable is

A haram.

Many Americans are perplexed by Buddhism. The prohibition against killing other life forms, for instance, seems unworkable. What is the Buddhist answer to the question of whether it is permissible to kill the mosquito buzzing around your ear at night when you are trying to sleep

All of the above would be acceptable. The Buddhist belief is that the mosquito should only be killed as a last resort.

An insect that is very widely used in the Bible and Torah is the honey bee. In which of the following ways are bees or bee products used

As literal descriptors of events, as a commentary on human behavior and as a metaphor.

Another popular entomological theme in the Bible and Torah is the locust. In which way is the locust not used in these texts

As the devil or satan

Which of the following is an example of insects being used by a composer in a literal fashion

Bartok's Diary of a Fly and Rimsky-Korsakov's Flight of the Bumblebee.

Why are bacteriophages relevant to a discussion of the Qu'ran

Because bacteriophages represent a possible scientific explanation of a passage advising one to drink a beverage into which a fly has fallen.

Why might we consider insects capable of making music that is legitimately music when judged by human standards

Because some insects produce sound that is coherent, often rhythmic and sometimes with melodic content.

Metamorphosis is expensive. It requires a lot of cellular resources and energy. IT takes a lot of time and it exposes the insect to predation during the time it takes to molt. So, why do insects undergo metamorphosis

Because the skeleton of the insect is on the outside, there is no way to grow unless it shed its old cuticle and produces a new one

Sometimes we have used insect-based folk songs to provide musical support to important causes. Which of the following insects was used in an anti-slavery song

Bluetail Fly

Humans are endothermic. In contrast, insects are ectothermic. Ectothermic means that

Insects cannot make their own heat, so they have to absorb it from the environment.

What are the benefits of parthenogenesis in insects

It allows insects to reproduce without mating.

Which of the following statements about external fertilization is true

It is a primitive form go reproduction found primarily in ancient insects.

Which of the following is true about the Islamic dietary code

It is forbidden to eat donkeys and mules

On page 1 of Lesser's book, Lesser states "The vilest insect is the work of omnipotence, worthy of highest admiration. It is endowed with so many perfections, that the most powerful monarch or the most skillful artist, can produce nothing to be compared with it." What is the importance of this statement

It was an argument that insects could and should be used to validate God's existence because insects shared the same complexity and evidence of design that other more popular animals did.

Which of the following is not a translational difficulty found when trying to cull entomological information from divine texts

King James did not know any entomology

Which insect appears in the Book of Revelations with a human face and a crown of gold

Locust

Which insect is identified as acceptible for human consumption and which other insect should theoretically be permitted as well in the Abrahamic faiths

Locust and fleas

The function of ostia in the insect circulatory system is to

Make sure that the blood flows in one direction

Which of the following is NOT an insect behavior that is involved in "sealing the deal" or seducing a member of the opposite sex to mate

Male bed bugs dancing to seduce female bed bugs.

Which controlled substance appears in a well known insect-based folk song

Marijuana

William Paley was an important figure in which field of study

Natural Theology

In mammals, such as humans, which is NOT true about homeostasis

Only voluntary mechanisms like reducing activity levels can be used to reduce temperature if it has gone too high.

Which statement below best describes the reason why air bubbles can act as a physical gill for aquatic insects

Oxygen withdrawn from the bubble by the respiring insect is replaced by oxygen diffusing in from the surrounding water and Nitrogen found in the bubble is less water soluble than the other gases found in the bubble and helps to extend the useful lifetime of the bubble.

Why are insects sometimes used in divine texts like the Bible, Torah and Qu'ran

Parts of their biology can be a device for explaining aspects of human behavior. Insects and their characteristics can be used to explain how the natural world works.

The name for Islam comes from the Arabic root that means

Peace and submission

Which of the following castes of bees have been used as titles in popular music

Queen bees, worker bees and king bees

Which of the following statements is true about hemoglobin in insects

Some insects that live in low oxygen environments, such as midges and bot fly larvae, have hemoglobin in their blood to bind oxygen.

Which of the following is NOT a process used by male dragonflies to ensure that the progeny produced by a female with whom he has mated are his

Some males inject a spermatocide into the female urogenital tract kill off sperm of other males.

In humans, the kidneys are the site in which nitrogenous waste is removed from the blood and shunted out of the body. In insects, the production of nitrogenous waste is handled by which organ

The Malpighian Tubules.

In Islam, Mohammed's words are considered prophetic. In other words, although written in an archaic Middle Eastern language whose author had a primitive understanding of science, Mohammed's words will be shown to be true as modern science advances. Which of the following is an example of how modern science is being used to establish the scientific credibility of the Qu'ran

The enumeration of ant pheromones that could be used to explain the passage beginning "O ye ants."

One major challenge faced by some insects that humans don't face is

The fact that some life stages of an insect might be aquatic while others are terrestrial.

What was the importance of finding the Dead Sea Scrolls containing the original Hebrew texts of parts of the Bible and Torah to our entomological understanding

The number of passages that referred to insects was reduced from 120 to 98.

Why might a male insect present a nuptial gift to female with whom he wants mate

The nuptial gift may show that the male is likely to be a good provider, the nuptial gift may assist in nourishing the female helping her to produce a larger mass of eggs, The nuptial gift may distract the female allowing the male to transfer sperm to her for a longer period of time and also distract the female from eating the male.

What does the myth starring Begochidi reveal about Navajo psychology

They are fearful of breeding with outsiders and they recognize the dangers of incest.

Bed bugs are thigmotaxic. What does this mean

They prefer to reside in places where they are closely where they are closely surrounded by shelter, e.g., cracks in a wall.

What features of butterflies commend them for use in myths

They undergo complete metamophosis, They are beautifully colored. They can fly.

Why do insects produce sound

To help find a mate, defense/warning, as part of a courtship ritual

Insects have opted for the unusual feat of having a skeleton on the outside of the body. What is the function of that skeleton

To provide support for the insect body so that it doesn't collapse in heap and to protect the insect against various kinds of physical forces including predation.

Because insects are small, they don't have to breathe oxygen

True

Which characteristic of pheromones make them very useful in getting conspecific insects of the opposite sex together

Typically, both sexes produce sex pheromones

In Buddhism, one reason to avoid eating or hurting insects is

Under the doctrine of reincarnation, you might be born as an insect in your next life, All animals, including insects, are capable of suffering, Under the doctrine of Karma, what you do in this life will carry over into the next.

Insects need oxygen to maximize the extraction of ATP from glucose. Which of the following is a mechanism for actively increasing the amount of air that gets into an insect

Using abdominal muscles to alternately expand and contract the abdomen.

Were insects on Noah's Ark according to Lesser

What is the evidence one way or another? Scripturally, insects were said to have drawn the breath of life, therefore they would have a place on the ark.

If a butterfly larva receives a jolt of ecdysteriod hormone and there is no JH in the larva at the time of the molt, the outcome of the molt will be

a pupa

A Bacteriophage is

a virus that infects bacteria

The function of the baffle used by the tree cricket is to

allow the sound waves to advance in phase, thus, increasing the loudness of the sound.

All of the Abrahamic faiths

are monotheistic, share a common origin, are based on documents written by ancient people with a Middle Eastern perspective.

Why does the louse come in for some sharp criticism and social commentary by Lesser

because they reproduce so quickly that in a 24 hour period, a single louse can be mother, grandmother and great grandmother.

Fear of insects is

common, an evolutionary phenomenon, somewhat responsive to education

20. What insect did Emily Dickenson celebrate in a poem

cricket

The fear of insects-based condition that is most difficult to treat is

delusionary parasitosis.

Some insects are themselves unable to sing but are able to use sound produced by other species to cue in on potential prey. We call this phenomenon

eavesdropping

Bed bugs have very strange mating habits. Male and female bed bugs have been co-evolving for a long time. Which of the following represents a trait evolved by female bed bugs and what is its function

ectospermalage--a guide or portal on the abdomen to show the male where to enter her abdomen to avoid some of the carnage of the process.

A persistent irrational fear that results in significant distress and is not due to other conditions best defines the term

entomophobia

What type of cells is responsible for producing most of the cuticle

epidermal

In Bartok's Diary of a Fly, what activity of the fly was being referenced when the mood of the piece switched from doom and gloom to tranquility

escaping from the spider web.

What kinds of insects appear in human musical compositions

in general, the same orders, families and species that appear in myths, fables and divine texts.

Insect-produced sound that is made as a result of moving body parts but which lacks a specific purpose is called

incidental sound.

If you were a practicing entomologist and someone with DP found his way to your office to get help for his affliction, what course of action is likely to be most effective for both of you

listen, present him with a plan to rule out actual insect and dermatological problems, and help him build confidence that he has control.

Why do some insects make sound with their wings

male mosquitoes use it to attract a mate. queen bees use it to communicate with the rest of the hive.

If you were to identify the characteristics of the type of person who is the MOST likely candidate to suffer from delusionary parasitosis, they would be

middle-aged woman, living alone, recovering from surgery.

Why are winged insects so often used in myths

the capacity for flight makes them useful as intercessors with the gods

Insect Theology or Insectotheology can best be defined as

the existence of God could be proved by evidence of design and complexity in nature

In what way can the internet prevent a DP patient from getting help or cause him to regress if he's getting professional help

the internet can validate the DP patient's delusion by giving well-meaning but inaccurate advice

If a DP patient visits a physician, dermatologist or entomologist, what is the thing you are most likely to see

the patient will present a lenghty written history of his affliction with post-it note annotations. the patient will present a "match-box" containing the insect that turns out to be lint, hair or scabs. the patient will have one extensive research on the internet and gotten validation of his condition.

According to the Hopi myth, butterflies were silenced by the creator because

the song birds were jealous of the butterflies who were both beautify and able to sing.

Insects hear with ears in which changes in air pressure cause the tympanal membrane to vibrate. The latter is changed into a neurological message that sent to the insect's brain for processing and response. Which of the following statements about this process is true

the tympanal organ consists of the tympanum, the tracheal sac and the tympanal organ.

Which of the following is not true about illusionary parasitosis

there is no physical basis for illusionary parasitosis

Under the species scape concept, we would expect for insects

to be well represented in myths because there are so many species of insects.

What is the function of myth

to comment upon human (or divine) behavior. to teach a lesson of some sort. to explain a natural phenomenon.

Which of the below is NOT a form of sound production in insects

tympanum

The issue of spontaneous generation was raging during Lesser's time. What was the central question of the spontaneous generation debate

whether insects and other small organisms reproduced sexually or whether they arose spontaneously from nothing.