NEET BIOLOGY

BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION

KINGDOM ANIMALS

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Cicada, grasshopper, and butterfly are ____
A
insects
B
arthropods
C
animals
D
all of these
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The orders that contain the greatest numbers of species are Coleoptera (beetles), Lepidoptera (butterflies and moths), Hymenoptera (ants, bees, wasps), and Diptera (true flies).

Detailed explanation-2: -Cicadas are not locusts. They are not grasshoppers. Those are different species. But when Europeans first arrived in America, some started calling them locusts and even grasshoppers.

Detailed explanation-3: -Grasshoppers, locusts, crickets and katydids belong to a group of insects known as orthopterans (meaning ‘straight wings’).

Detailed explanation-4: -The three stages are egg, nymph, adult. When the young hatches they look similar to the adults except they are smaller, and don’t have wings. Examples of insects with a 3 stage life cycle include: True bugs, dragonflies, grasshoppers, crickets and earwigs.

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