Insect Life Cycles and Adaptions for Nutrition

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What are the two different types of insect life cycles?
Incomplete metamorphosis and complete metamorphosis
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What are the stages in incomplete metamorphosis?
Egg > Nymph (or instars) > Adult (or imago)
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What are the stages in complete metamorphosis?
Egg > Larva > Pupa > Adult
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What difference is there between the guts of carnivores and herbivores?
The carnivore gut is much shorter than the herbivore gut
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Why do humans have a gut of intermediate length between carnivores and herbivores?
Humans are omnivores (eat both meat and plant material)
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What is the correct difference between the dentition of a carnivore and a herbivore?
Herbivores have a diastema, whereas carnivores do not
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Why do herbivores need a lot of bacteria within the caecum?
Because herbivores cannot digest cellulose on their own, they need cellulase to digest it
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Which regions in the human gut are involved in absorption?
Mouth, stomach and small intestine
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Where in the human gut does absorption take place?
Small intestine and large intestine
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