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Chitinous Architectures: Exoskeletal Enigma
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- 1. Joint enabling mobility between exoskeletal segments
- 3. Made of a nitrogenous polysaccharide forming rigid external skeleton
- 5. The cast-off remains after an arthropod sheds its outer layer
- 6. Ecdysis, the process of shedding and renewing an exoskeleton
- 7. Hardened plates forming the mosaic of arthropod armor
- 8. Functional groupings of segments in segmented exoskeletons
- 10. Obscure term sometimes used to describe a sclerotized shield plate
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- 2. Biochemical hardening process of cuticular proteins and chitin
- 4. In arthropods, this outer cell layer secretes the protective cuticle
- 9. Pertaining to the composite exoskeletal covering made chiefly of chitin
- 11. A genus of darkling beetles famed for their robust exoskeletons
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