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Entomology
The study of insects.
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totipotency
Biology; Entomology
The potential, throughout life, to express the full behavioral repertoire of the population (even if never actually expressed), and the ability to produce offspring like oneself, exhibiting the full ...
tergite
Biology; Entomology
The primary plate or sclerite forming the dorsal surface of any body segment.
axon
Biology; Entomology
The process of a nerve cell that conducts impulses away from the cell body.
polyembryony
Biology; Entomology
The production of several embryos from a single egg, as in some chalcids.
stridulation
Biology; Entomology
The production of sounds by rubbing two parts of the body together: best known in grasshoppers and other orthopterans.
meconium
Biology; Entomology
The reddish fluid ejected by a member of the lepidoptera after emerging from the pupa/chrysalis.
