ENTO 320 PRACTICE EXAMS 2025/2026 QUESTIONS WITH
ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔Law - ✔✔A description of what nature does under certain conditions. No exceptions
have been found
✔✔Evolution - ✔✔Changes in genetic makeup over time
✔✔Migration - ✔✔Drastic changes to the gene pool
✔✔Emergent property - ✔✔A property that develops due to increasing complexity
✔✔Taxonomy - ✔✔The science of identifying, describing, naming, and classifying
organisms
✔✔Genus and species are... - ✔✔Italicized
Genus capitalized, Species is not
✔✔Didn't Know Popeyes Chicken Offered Free Gizzard Strips - ✔✔Domain Kingdom
Phylum Class Order Family Genus Species
✔✔Father of taxonomy - ✔✔Carolus Linnaeus
✔✔Character - ✔✔A given trait
✔✔Homology - ✔✔Similarity resulting from a common ancestor
✔✔Phylogenetics - ✔✔Field of biology that explores evolutionary relationships among
taxa
✔✔Parsimony - ✔✔A principle basic to all science and tells us to choose the simplest
scientific explanation that fits the evidence
✔✔What % of the anthropoda have we named - ✔✔20%
✔✔Phylum to species of bee - ✔✔Arthropoda, insects, Hymenoptera, apocrita/aculeata,
Apoidea, Apidae, Apis, Mellifera
✔✔Polyandry - ✔✔Female mates with numerous partners
✔✔What kind of blood are bees? - ✔✔Cold blooded
✔✔Why do bees cluster - ✔✔1. Regulate internal/external temp
2. Cluster around the queen in a cage
, ✔✔What kind of care do apis bees provide? - ✔✔Progressive provisioning
✔✔Colonies reproduce by... - ✔✔Swarming
✔✔Swarm cluster - ✔✔Bivouac
✔✔How does the old queen typically leave? - ✔✔With swarm
✔✔Criteria for swarming - ✔✔1. Enough food
2. Large population
3. New queens being created
✔✔What kind of comb does apis mellifra make? - ✔✔Vertical
✔✔What kind of language is dance language - ✔✔Referential communication
✔✔Apis behaviors - ✔✔1. Dance language
2. Nest made of vertical wax comb
3. Use of the same cells for brood rearing and resource storage
4. Colony level reproduction by swarming
5. Workers form clusters
6. Thermoregulation of the nest
7. Progressive provisioning of brood
8. Extreme polyandry
✔✔Why has Apis Mellifera spread so far? - ✔✔1. Cavity nesting
2. Size
3. Thermoregulation
4. Winter bees
5. Timing of swarming and relative stability
✔✔Apis Cerna - ✔✔Smaller size and smaller colonies, abscond nests frequently,
managed in native range
✔✔Abscond - ✔✔Migration of nests
✔✔Apis Dorsata - ✔✔1. Smaller, less hairy
2. Lower altitudes
3. Nests in trees, may aggregate
4. Quiet dancing
✔✔Apis Laboriosa - ✔✔1. Larger, hairier
2. Mountains, cool and high altitudes
ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔Law - ✔✔A description of what nature does under certain conditions. No exceptions
have been found
✔✔Evolution - ✔✔Changes in genetic makeup over time
✔✔Migration - ✔✔Drastic changes to the gene pool
✔✔Emergent property - ✔✔A property that develops due to increasing complexity
✔✔Taxonomy - ✔✔The science of identifying, describing, naming, and classifying
organisms
✔✔Genus and species are... - ✔✔Italicized
Genus capitalized, Species is not
✔✔Didn't Know Popeyes Chicken Offered Free Gizzard Strips - ✔✔Domain Kingdom
Phylum Class Order Family Genus Species
✔✔Father of taxonomy - ✔✔Carolus Linnaeus
✔✔Character - ✔✔A given trait
✔✔Homology - ✔✔Similarity resulting from a common ancestor
✔✔Phylogenetics - ✔✔Field of biology that explores evolutionary relationships among
taxa
✔✔Parsimony - ✔✔A principle basic to all science and tells us to choose the simplest
scientific explanation that fits the evidence
✔✔What % of the anthropoda have we named - ✔✔20%
✔✔Phylum to species of bee - ✔✔Arthropoda, insects, Hymenoptera, apocrita/aculeata,
Apoidea, Apidae, Apis, Mellifera
✔✔Polyandry - ✔✔Female mates with numerous partners
✔✔What kind of blood are bees? - ✔✔Cold blooded
✔✔Why do bees cluster - ✔✔1. Regulate internal/external temp
2. Cluster around the queen in a cage
, ✔✔What kind of care do apis bees provide? - ✔✔Progressive provisioning
✔✔Colonies reproduce by... - ✔✔Swarming
✔✔Swarm cluster - ✔✔Bivouac
✔✔How does the old queen typically leave? - ✔✔With swarm
✔✔Criteria for swarming - ✔✔1. Enough food
2. Large population
3. New queens being created
✔✔What kind of comb does apis mellifra make? - ✔✔Vertical
✔✔What kind of language is dance language - ✔✔Referential communication
✔✔Apis behaviors - ✔✔1. Dance language
2. Nest made of vertical wax comb
3. Use of the same cells for brood rearing and resource storage
4. Colony level reproduction by swarming
5. Workers form clusters
6. Thermoregulation of the nest
7. Progressive provisioning of brood
8. Extreme polyandry
✔✔Why has Apis Mellifera spread so far? - ✔✔1. Cavity nesting
2. Size
3. Thermoregulation
4. Winter bees
5. Timing of swarming and relative stability
✔✔Apis Cerna - ✔✔Smaller size and smaller colonies, abscond nests frequently,
managed in native range
✔✔Abscond - ✔✔Migration of nests
✔✔Apis Dorsata - ✔✔1. Smaller, less hairy
2. Lower altitudes
3. Nests in trees, may aggregate
4. Quiet dancing
✔✔Apis Laboriosa - ✔✔1. Larger, hairier
2. Mountains, cool and high altitudes
