What is the function of the exocuticle in insects?
Correct answer D. Rigidity of body parts
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How much floor space does a broiler need up to six weeks of age?
Correct answer C. 1 ft²
What is the insect body wall, made up of the cuticle, epidermis and basement membrane, called?
Correct answer B. Integument
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In areas with high environmental temperatures, which way should a poultry house face?
Correct answer C. North-South
In what unit is light intensity in poultry houses measured?
Correct answer B. Foot candle
What are the jumping legs of a grasshopper called?
Correct answer A. Saltatorial
What type of legs do ants, butterflies, wasps and moths have?
Correct answer C. Cursorial
What does the adrenal cortex produce?
Correct answer B. Corticosterone
What is the variation in body temperature within 24 hours called?
Correct answer D. Circadian
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In honey bees, what is the row of tiny hooks on the front edge of the hind wing that catches the rolled-up rear edge of the forewing called?
Correct answer B. Hamuli
What is the lethal body temperature for a chicken?
Correct answer B. 45°C
Malposition is a condition in which the chick hatches in what way?
Correct answer C. Abnormally
When the forewings of an insect are modified into halteres, what are they called?
Correct answer A. Pseudohalteres
What does the embryo do during pipping?
Correct answer A. Breaks the egg shell
What type of wings do grasshoppers and cockroaches have?
Correct answer B. Tegmina
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What is the type of pupa with free appendages that are not glued to the body called?
Correct answer B. Exarate
The isthmus is the part of the hen’s oviduct that helps with what?
Correct answer C. Egg shell membrane formation
Which larva has a cylindrical, elongated body that is narrow at the front and has no legs?
Correct answer B. Vermiform
What determines the shape of an egg?
Correct answer D. Heritable character
Below what temperature should fertile eggs never be stored?
Correct answer D. 11°C