Name: Date: Arthropods Kingdom: Domain: Phylum *Text pages 378-381. This is required reading. -Arthropods belong to the Phylum ____________________, which means __________________ _______________ in Greek. This name refers to the many jointed appendages on the various segments of the arthropod body. -Below are some interesting facts about Arthropods: -Arthropods are regarded as the world’s most successful Animal Phyla with an estimated population of 108 (A billion billion)! This means that there are more than 160 million insects for each person on Earth! -Arthropods currently account for over 83% of all known species. -Tiny crustaceans called copepods, less than a centimeter long, are the most abundant animals in the ocean. There are so many of them that they outweigh all the whales on Earth! -In the following pages we will be exploring what has made Phylum Arthopoda so successful. -Circle the phylum to which are Arthopods more most closely related? -Are Arthropods Protostomes or Deuterostomes? -All modern Arthropods are descended from a single common ancestor. If an organism has not descended from this ancestor, it is not an Arthropod. There are five branches in the Arthropod phylogenetic tree.
Name: Date: Arthropods Kingdom: Domain: Phylum *Text pages 378-381. This is required reading. -Arthropods belong to the Phylum ____________________, which means __________________ _______________ in Greek. This name refers to the many jointed appendages on the various segments of the arthropod body. -Below are some interesting facts about Arthropods: -Arthropods are regarded as the world’s most successful Animal Phyla with an estimated population of 108 (A billion billion)! This means that there are more than 160 million insects for each person on Earth! -Arthropods currently account for over 83% of all known species. -Tiny crustaceans called copepods, less than a centimeter long, are the most abundant animals in the ocean. There are so many of them that they outweigh all the whales on Earth! -In the following pages we will be exploring what has made Phylum Arthopoda so successful. -Circle the phylum to which are Arthopods more most closely related? -Are Arthropods Protostomes or Deuterostomes? -All modern Arthropods are descended from a single common ancestor. If an organism has not descended from this ancestor, it is not an Arthropod. There are five branches in the Arthropod phylogenetic tree.
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