Which of the following statements is NOT consistent with the...

Which of the following statements is NOT consistent with the Morphological Preadaptation hypothesis ? The ancestors to blood-feeding arthropods may have had mouthparts capable of piercing the rinds of fruits (frugivorous). The ancestors to blood-feeding arthropods may have had mouth parts capable of piercing insect exoskeltons (entomophagous). The ancestors to blood-feeding arthropods may have had the capability of digesting vertebrate blood. The ancestors to blood-feeding arthropods may have been attracted to dung.

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00:01 The question that is given over here, it says that among the traits that have made the orthropodes successful evolutionarily is that they have different mouthparts that allow them to feed on different types of fruit.

00:20 Then the first part of the question, it says that we have to discuss and include the specific parts of the feeding structures.

00:28 The mouthparts that is found in the three species that use the piercing and sucking mouthparts.

00:43 The first one or the box.

00:47 The box, they have a piercing and a sucking type of mouthparts and it has three segmented proboscis.

01:05 And this is formed by the labium.

01:08 The labium is the sucking tube.

01:14 The maximum and the bills needle -like structure, they are called as the stylets.

01:23 In bucks, the epipharings and the hypofarin are absent.

01:29 And then the second one is the mosquito.

01:36 Mosquito has a piercing and a sucking type of mouthparts.

01:40 The firstly pierces the skin of the animal and then it sucks the blade.

01:54 The mosquito has a narrow elongated structure.

01:57 This narrow elongated structure is called as the proboscis and it has a sucking tube in the same as buck.

02:09 They have the labium and they also have the maxilla.

02:17 The maxilla are sharp and middle -like structures...

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