ENT 201 MAIN EXAMS SCRIPT 2025/2026 QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔Heteroptera - ✔✔An insect order containing the aphids, true bugs, and their allies.
Includes the fomer Homoptera (aphids, etc.) which are all plant feeders, and the former
Hemiptera (true bugs), which includes plant feeders, predators, and parasites.
✔✔Hexapod - ✔✔An arthropod with six legs.
✔✔Indirect flight muscles - ✔✔major flight muscles attached to the walls of the thorax
rather than the bases of the wings
✔✔Isoptera - ✔✔The insect order containing termites.
✔✔Kairomone - ✔✔Chemical communication between organisms which is negative for
the sender and positive for the receiver.
✔✔Locust - ✔✔A large, often migratory, grasshopper
✔✔Luciferin - ✔✔The chemical which produces, when combined with light, ATP, and
the enzyme luciferinase, light in insects.
✔✔Mating disruption - ✔✔Using pheromones to confuse pest insects so that they can't
find each other to mate.
✔✔Mechanical disease transmission - ✔✔The case where a disease agent is
transmitted on the surface or in the mouthparts of the vectoring organism.
✔✔Migration - ✔✔directional movement of large numbers of organisms
✔✔Myiasis - ✔✔Parasitic infestation of living vertebrate tissue by larval flies.
✔✔Nomadic migration - ✔✔Migration in any direction in response to the availability of
resources.
✔✔Parasite - ✔✔An organism which lives in, on, or near another organism at that
organism's expense.
✔✔Pathogen - ✔✔An organism causing disease in another.
✔✔Pheromone - ✔✔chemical that facilitates communication between members of the
same species.
ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔Heteroptera - ✔✔An insect order containing the aphids, true bugs, and their allies.
Includes the fomer Homoptera (aphids, etc.) which are all plant feeders, and the former
Hemiptera (true bugs), which includes plant feeders, predators, and parasites.
✔✔Hexapod - ✔✔An arthropod with six legs.
✔✔Indirect flight muscles - ✔✔major flight muscles attached to the walls of the thorax
rather than the bases of the wings
✔✔Isoptera - ✔✔The insect order containing termites.
✔✔Kairomone - ✔✔Chemical communication between organisms which is negative for
the sender and positive for the receiver.
✔✔Locust - ✔✔A large, often migratory, grasshopper
✔✔Luciferin - ✔✔The chemical which produces, when combined with light, ATP, and
the enzyme luciferinase, light in insects.
✔✔Mating disruption - ✔✔Using pheromones to confuse pest insects so that they can't
find each other to mate.
✔✔Mechanical disease transmission - ✔✔The case where a disease agent is
transmitted on the surface or in the mouthparts of the vectoring organism.
✔✔Migration - ✔✔directional movement of large numbers of organisms
✔✔Myiasis - ✔✔Parasitic infestation of living vertebrate tissue by larval flies.
✔✔Nomadic migration - ✔✔Migration in any direction in response to the availability of
resources.
✔✔Parasite - ✔✔An organism which lives in, on, or near another organism at that
organism's expense.
✔✔Pathogen - ✔✔An organism causing disease in another.
✔✔Pheromone - ✔✔chemical that facilitates communication between members of the
same species.
