Marie Louise Goodnight
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LOCATION: Kalamazoo, MI, United States
Freelance writer and researcher. Instructor in Biological Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, 1946–65. Coauthor of General Zoology.
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Arachnid, (class Arachnida), any member of the arthropod group that includes spiders, daddy longlegs, scorpions, and (in the subclass Acari) the mites and ticks, as well as lesser-known subgroups. Only a few species are of economic importance—for example, the mites and ticks, which transmit…
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