Question

Choose the correct answers from the alternatives given.
In arthropods, the possession of a cuticle usually dictates:

• A. an aquatic environment
• B. molting
• C. metamorphosis
• D. gills or tracheal system for gas exchange

Answer 1

The correct option is B molting

The cuticle is a rather inextensible structure, and in order to grow, insects need to shed their old cuticle at intervals after having produced a new one with a larger surface area. The whole process, from breaking the connections between the epidermal cells and the cuticle (apolysis) to emerging from the remnants of the old cuticle (ecdysis), is called molting.

So, the correct option is, 'molting'.