(2 points) Why are the drugs used to treat parasitic helminths often toxic to the host? The drugs used to treat parasitic helminths are often toxic to the host since both have similar cellular functions. Both have similar plasma membranes, and both are classified as eukaryotes. 7.…
Roly Pollie Party; How Different Types of Music Impact Pill Bugs Behavior In our experiment, my partner and I came up with the hypothesis that the vibrations of different kinds of music would affect the behavior of pill bugs. Pill bugs, also know as Roly Pollies, are small, black, terrestrial crustaceans, that roll up to protect themselves from predators. Pill bugs can't hear, but they can sense the vibrations from the sounds. This lead my partner and I to see how the vibrations from the sound would impact the behavior of the Roly Pollies.…
Pill bugs name is woodlouse. Climate change will have an effect on animals, plants, and humans. With climate change rising many animals are going to get extinct in the future. Pill bugs are small animals that can live under rocks, and when you catch one they always tend to rolled up into a small ball. Their body temperature has to match with the environment that they live on.…
3. The earthworm has a segmented body with a mouth at the anterior end and an anus at the posterior end. It has a smooth, purple dorsal side and a rough, yellow ventral side with setae. Two sperm grooves run along the body from segment 15 (where sperm ducts are also located) to the clitellum, which looks like a tube surrounding the earthworm’s body and is closer to the anterior end. 4.…
Pinworms (Enterobius vermicularis) is a worm that is shaped like a small bracelet that live in the lower part of the digestive tract. A person exposed to the pinworms infection, also known as oxyuriasis. Pinworms infection most often occurs in children, could even affect up to two-thirds of children aged 5-10 years. The worm, which on average has a body length of 5 to 13 millimeters, usually put its eggs on the folds of skin around the anus at the time the sufferer being asleep.…
The glow worm is an insect that lives in grassy areas, and anywhere with plants. Glow worms also are omnivores and eat meat, they tend to eat snails and slugs, which makes up the glow worms diet. The worm has some distinctive features such as a hard shell for protection, a light at the end of it and through their body, with little horn things at the top of the head. The glow worm is also not an extinct bug; they are still around just not many seen. The glow worms habitat are woodland and caves.…
In 3034, scientists discovered a new, deadly parasite; the ____. It takes a hold of the host's brain, causing them to lose most of their human functions and attributes. Their irises dull, their pupils shrink, and their skin becomes lifeless. Their ability to move deplete until they're reduced to stumble around, hoping to catch an uninfected off guard. WHile most infected become this way, there are some who keep most of what makes them…
There are many cultures across the globe that still believe in superstitions, witchcraft, traditional healing, and magic. These beliefs expand throughout generations in some cultures and traditions. Many superstitions are rooted in the belief of old magic and the mystical healing properties of animals and medical herbs. Numerous superstitions were developed to explain events or situations that occurred out of fear of the unknown. These ideas enlightened individuals about why things happened, and the unexplained event could be cause by witches, ancestors, or curses.…
Without a host, there is simply no way for parasites to live. One very interesting example of a parasite is the Dicrocoelium dendriticum or most commonly called…
Sea lice continuously reproduce on while attach to the host and produce enormous numbers of eggs over a short period of time. If not treated at certain times, these cause severe skin lesions on the skin and in some cases,…
The group of scientists decided to focus on the effect of parasites on animals. They choose wolves in Yellowstone National Park as their subject. The parasite chosen for the study was the mange. Mange causes hair loss to the infected animals. The focus of the study is on the effect of the hair loss that are often caused by mange on the wolves.…
These parasites bread very rapidly as if they are on drugs. Therefore, Mr. Read is worried about these bugs. In the 1960, the United States surgeon General believed that we have won the war against these bugs. Now days these bugs have become super bugs. These super bugs are now are killing more people then car accident per year.…
There’s a long history of smallpox since it has been around for thousands of years. The European settlers first brought smallpox to North America in the 1600s. In 1633-1634, the disease swept through the Northeast, wiping out entire Native American tribes. Native populations in New England are thought to have plummeted by over 70 percent due to this outbreak (Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center, 2012). Smallpox is spread when a person breathes it in and out.…
1. Guinea worm disease is likely to become the first parasitic disease to be globally eradicated. 2. A female Guinea Worm can grow up to three feet! 3.…
Today smallpox is an eradicated disease. However, fears of the disease still exist. In 2014 vials of smallpox were discovered in a refrigerator at the National Institutes of Health in Maryland. There are also fears that smallpox could return as biological weapon used by terrorists…