ENTO 320 - Answers Honey Bee Biology Lectures 1-4
Apis mellifera - Answers Honey bee
Apis lingustica - Answers Italian Honey Bee
Apis mellifera mellifera - Answers German Honey Bee
Apis forea - Answers dwarf bee
Apis cerana - Answers Asian bee; reside in southeast Asia
Apis dorsata - Answers giant honey bees that reside in southeast asia
Apis carnica - Answers carniolan bee ; common in europe and one of the most common in the U.S.
Apis scutellata - Answers Africanized honey bee; "killer bee"
Bees are age ______ - Answers polytheistic; division of labor separated by age
Bees are ______, or "truly social" - Answers eusocial
Retinue bees - Answers Queen's personal servants; take care of all her needs.
Cell theory - Answers -all organisms are made of cells
-cells are the smallest unit of life
Prokaryotes - Answers bacteria
eukaryotes - Answers plants, animals, yeast, and fungus
Energy use and metabolism - Answers Plants use sunlight and animals eat plants. That energy is used for
respiration and anabolism.
Homeostasis - Answers An organism's tendency to achieve a stable equilibrium
Metabolism is used for _______ and ________. - Answers body temp and chemicals within the body
The structure of life: - Answers Atoms, molecules, cells, tissue, organs, organism, population,
community, ecosystem, and biosphere
Evolution - Answers Different organisms interacting with the environment, causing adaptation and
specialization
2 types of evolution: - Answers Vertical descent with modification and horizontal gene transfer
Vertical descent with modification - Answers New species arise due to mutation and natural selection
, Horizontal gene transfer - Answers Genetic exchange between different species. Rare and typically
occurs within antibiotic resistance in bacteria.
Order Coleoptera - Answers beetles
Order Diptera - Answers Flies
Order Lepidoptera - Answers butterflies and moths
Order hymenoptera - Answers Bees; (Hymen:clear membrane)
Batesian mimicry - Answers When organism has aposomatic colors to appear hostile or dangerous to
eat. (To fool potential predators)
Elytron - Answers Chitinized protective forewing that is colored
Coleo-ptera - Answers "sheath" wing
Lepido-ptera - Answers "scaly" wings (Ex. Butterflies)
Hymeno-ptera - Answers "Membrane" wing
Diptera - Answers One pair of wings; one pair of halteres (fake wings)
King Philip Came Over For Good Soup (Bees) - Answers Animalia, Arthropoda, Insecta, Hymenoptera,
Apidae, Apis, Mellifera
Superclass, Class, Order, Suborder, Division, Superfamily, Family - Answers Hexapoda, Insecta,
Hymenoptera, Apocrita, Aculeata, Apoidea, Apidae,
Stinger - Answers modified ovipositor (organ used by some animals for the laying of eggs)
scopae ("sko-pa") - Answers used my Megachilladae for pollen collection (leaf-cutter bees)
Corbicula - Answers Pollen basket on hind legs
Megachalipae - Answers Family of Superfamily Apoidea (The leaf cutter bees, mason bees, and cuckoo
bees)
Kleptoparasitic: Cuckoo Bee - Answers Don't collect pollen or construct nest; They lay their eggs in the
nest of bees to consume their resources.
Halictidae: Sweat Bee - Answers Family of Superfamily Apoidae
Direct Fitness - Answers Organism breeds independently, contributing their DNA to the gene pool.
Indirect Fitness: (ex. honey bee) - Answers Sterile individuals who contribute to gene pool by helping
relatives