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Arthropods
Section 26.1 Arthropod Characteristics
gangliontransportSkim Section 1 of the chapter. Write two questions that come to
mind from reading the headings and the illustration captions.1.2.Use your book or dictionar y to define ganglion.Write the correct term in the left column for each definition below.body structure consisting of fused thorax and head regionsopening from the tracheae or book lungs to the outside of an
arthropod’s bodytube that branches into smaller and smaller tubules to carry oxygen
throughout the bodybody region of fused segments at the posterior end of an arthropod
that contains digestive structures and reproductive organsin most arthropods, structure that removes cellular wastes from the
blood and empties into the gutsaclike pocket with highly folded walls for respirationin arthropods, process of shedding an exoskeletonmiddle body region, consisting of three fused main segments to
which, in many arthropods, legs and wings are attachedstructure that grows and extends from an animal’s bodymouthpart in arthropods that can be adapted for biting and chewingchemical secreted by many animal species that influences the
behavior of other animals of the same speciesDefine transport to show its scientific meaning.New
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