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Describe the major structural differences between the Arachnida, Crustacea, Myriapoda and Insecta. Use diagrams if this assists you to answer the question.
answer-
characters |
Insecta |
Arachnids |
Crustacean |
Myriapoda |
Body region and segmentation |
Body segmented into head, thorax, and abdomen |
Body segmented opisthosoma and prosoma |
the body is segmented into head, cephalothorax, and thorax. |
Have two regions head and /trunk and is well segmented |
Length |
Depends on the insect to insect |
Are less than 5 cm |
Are larger than the arachnids |
Mostly smaller |
Antennae |
Have a pair of antennae |
No antennae |
Two pair of antennae |
One pair or none |
Appendages |
Have six legs or one or two pair of appendages |
Have 8 appendages |
Have 10 or more legs |
Have one or two pairs of appendages per segment. |
Exoskeleton |
made of proteins (sclerotin) and chitin and is interwoven form flexible structure |
Made up of outer wax containing outer thin epicuticleans and inner a thicker endocuticle |
Made of protein chitin and calcium and is made up of separate plate |
thick chitinous cuticle exoskeleton |
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