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Cockroach Study

Insects are the most successful group of arthropods and occupy nearly every habitat on Earth. They have an exoskeleton which reduces water loss and three body segments - a head, thorax, and abdomen. Insects exhibit a range of distinguishing characteristics including antennae, compound eyes, three pairs of walking legs, and often one or two pairs of wings. Some orders of insects include Dictyoptera like cockroaches, Hymenoptera like bees and wasps, and Diptera like flies.

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Cockroach Study

Insects are the most successful group of arthropods and occupy nearly every habitat on Earth. They have an exoskeleton which reduces water loss and three body segments - a head, thorax, and abdomen. Insects exhibit a range of distinguishing characteristics including antennae, compound eyes, three pairs of walking legs, and often one or two pairs of wings. Some orders of insects include Dictyoptera like cockroaches, Hymenoptera like bees and wasps, and Diptera like flies.

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Class: Insecta
Insects are the most successful animals on earth since they possess an exoskeleton
which reduces water loss from the body.
Insects are the largest group of arthropods.
They occupy every habitat on earth in such places as air, soil and water. However,
they mainly inhabit terrestrial habitats. Examples of insects include grasshoppers,
houseflies, butterflies, bees, and termites.

Distinguishing characteristics
i) Insects have three body parts, namely: the head, thorax, and abdomen.
ii) They have one pair of antenna.
iii) They have a pair of compound eyes. In some case, simple eyes are also
present.
iv) They have three pairs of walking legs on the thorax. One pair of walking legs
per segment of the thorax.
v) Most insects have one or two pairs of wings on the second and/ or the third
segment of the thorax. Some insects have no wings.
vi) They breathe by means of spiracles and carry out gaseous exchange in the
tracheal system.

They exhibit the longest level of organization in animals, i.e. social organization
especially in bees, wasps and ants. They are the only invertebrates which can fly.

Some of the insect orders


Order Characteristic feather of the order
(the word ptera means wing). Examples
Dictyoptera Has hard outer wings Cockroach, beetles, weevils.
Hymenoptera Has membranous wings Wasps, bees
Isoptera Has similar wings Termites
Lepidoptera Has scale wings Moths, butterflies
Diptera Have two pairs of wings. The second pair is reduced into halteres for
balancing. Mosquitoes, houseflies
Orthoptera Has long straight wings Grasshopper, locusts, Preying mantis

PHYLUM: CHORDATA
Chordate refers to animals which possess a notochord.
Main characteristics
 The presence of a notochord during the early stages of development.
 They have bilateral symmetry.
 The body is composed of head, trunk and usually a tail at some stage of
development.
 Possess a hollow dorsal nerve cord.
 They have pharyngeal clefts.
 They limbs originate from different body segments.
This phylum mainly consists of the vertebrates and they are divided into 5 classes.
The 5 classes include the following;

1. Pisces (fishes) e.g. tilapia and the Nile perch,


2. Amphibia, e.g. frogs and toads
3. Reptiliae.g. snakes, lizards, crocodiles
4. Aves- birds
5. Mammaliae.g. man and whale

CLASS: PISCES
This class contains fish.
Characteristics of organisms in class Pisces
 They live in water
 They have a streamlined body
 They scales on their skin
 They breathe using gills
 They have fins for swimming.
 They have eggs that are fertilized outside the body (externally)

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