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having an exoskeleton affect how an animal grows because the exoskeleton does not grow as the animal grows so the animal must shed or molt its exoskeleton.
After shedding its exoskeleton, a crayfish hides because it becomes vulnerable to injury and attacks from predators. The crayfish sheds its exoskeleton when it needs to grow. It can take two to three days for a crayfish to re-grow a new and larger one.
It is more like because insects grow, they must get rid of their old exoskeleton. Imagine if you took a small plastic box and put a water balloon inside. The plastic would be like the exoskeleton and the water balloon would be like the insect's organs. If you add water to the balloon eventually it will fill the whole box and start trying to pop the box open. That is like an insect. Their bodies grow but the exoskeleton is too hard to stretch or grow. Therefore, they shed their exoskeleton and grow a new one that fits them.
An animal (insect) with an exoskeleton still grows under its exoskeleton like any other animal (insect). The exoskeleton is like a suit of armor, when the animal (insect) grows to big to fit inside its exoskeleton it sheds it, and a newer exoskeleton will grow to fit the animal (insect).
because the scorpions have jointed legs i don't research it on computer
Ecdysis is when an arthropod molts its exoskeleton. Molting is necessary. The arthropod exoskeleton is inflexible, so, for it to grow larger, arthropods must molt.
Most only do so in larval/juvenile stages, when it's time to grow. Some arthropods such as tarantula females continue growing and molting until death. Also, when damage has occurred (torn off leg for example) molting can be induced earlier to develop and grow new appendages. :)
An insect does this to grow. It expands rapidly before the next exoskeleton hardens.
No they cant because there hardly is any rain there. So the strawberry's cant get enough water to grow.
Through shedding their exoskeleton.
Because of a process called Ecdysis (also known as moulting) arthropods are able to grow bigger. In ecdysis old exoskeleton is shed and new one (slightly bigger) covers the body.
Because they cant grow their.