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From the Ted Talk by Anika Hazra: A simple way to tell insects apart
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The chewing mouthpart is the most common. It’s also the most primitive— all other mouthparts are thought to have started out looking like this one before evolving into something different. It features a pair of jaws called mandibles with toothed inner edges that cut up and crush sliod foods, like leaves or other icetsns. You can find this mouthpart on ants from the Hymenoptera order, grasshoppers and crickets of the orerhptota order, diefnoalrgs of the Odonata oderr, and beetles of the Coleoptera order.
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The chewing mouthpart is the most common. It’s also the most primitive— all other mouthparts are thought to have started out looking like this one before evolving into something different. It features a pair of jaws called mandibles with toothed inner edges that cut up and crush _____ foods, like leaves or other _______. You can find this mouthpart on ants from the Hymenoptera order, grasshoppers and crickets of the __________ order, ___________ of the Odonata _____, and beetles of the Coleoptera order.
Solution
- solid
- dragonflies
- order
- orthoptera
- insects
Original Text
The chewing mouthpart is the most common. It’s also the most primitive— all other mouthparts are thought to have started out looking like this one before evolving into something different. It features a pair of jaws called mandibles with toothed inner edges that cut up and crush solid foods, like leaves or other insects. You can find this mouthpart on ants from the Hymenoptera order, grasshoppers and crickets of the Orthoptera order, dragonflies of the Odonata order, and beetles of the Coleoptera order.
Frequently Occurring Word Combinations
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- odonata
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- orthoptera
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