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42 Cards in this Set
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Helminths
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Nematodes (round worms) Cestodes (tapeworms) Trematodes (Flukes) |
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Fasciola Hepatica
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A parasitic trematode (Flatworm or fluke) that infects the liver of various mammal, including humans. Infected by eating watercress.
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Van Beneden
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Meiosis
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Boveri
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Demonstrated the continuity of chromosomes in parasitic nematodes.
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Keilin
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Discovered cytochrome and the electron transport system |
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Trypanosome
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Any minute trypanosome parasitic in the blood or tissue of human and other vertebrates usually transmitted by insects can cause African sleeping sickness.
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Nematology
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The Study of nematodes
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Entomology
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The study of insects
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Phoresis
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When two symbionts are merely "traveling together" and there is no physiological or biochemical dependence on the part of either participant.
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Examples of Phoresis
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Bacteria on the legs of a fly. Fungal spores on the feet of a beetle. |
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Dermatobia Hominis
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A fly whose larva lives beneath the skin of warm blooded animals
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Mutualism
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A relationship in which both partners benefit from the association.
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Examples of mutualism
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Termites and their intestinal protozoa fauna. Bacteria of blood sucking leeches digesting blood for them. |
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Wolbachia
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A bacteria
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Wuchereria Bancrofti
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A human parasitic roundworm that is the major cause of lymphatic filariasis.
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Onchocerca Volvulus
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A roundworm that causes onchocerciasis or "river blindness" mostly in Africa. |
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Commensalism
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One partner benefits from the association, but the host is neither helped nor harmed.
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Examples of commensalism
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Pilot fish and remoras Vorticella on small crustaceans |
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Entamoeba gingivalis
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Commensal protozoans found in humans
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parasitism
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A relationship in which one of the participants, the parasite, either harms its host or in some sense lives at the expense of the host.
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ectoparasite
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Parasite that lives on the outside of the host
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Endoparasite
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Parasite that lives within the host
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Example of endoparasite
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Tapeworm
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Obligate parasite
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A parasite that cannot complete its life-cycle without spending at least part of the time in a parasitic relationship.
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Facultative parasite
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Not normally parasitic but can become so when they are accidentally eaten or enter a wound or other body orifice.
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Examples of facultative parasite
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Naegleria fowleri Halicephalobos |
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Naegleria Fowleri
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A free-living bacteria that can be parasitic and cause a brain infection
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Halicephalobus
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A free living nematode (roundworm) that can cause a brain infection in humans.
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Accidental/incidental parasite
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Parasite found in other than its normal host
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Example of accidental parasite
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Nematode that is typically found in insects lives for a short time in a bird Rodent flea bites a human or a dog. |
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Permanent parasite
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Parasite that lives its entire life within or on a host.
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Temporary/ intermittent parasite
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Parasite that contacts its host only to feed and then leaves.
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Examples of temporary parasite
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Mosquitoes Bed bugs |
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Micropredator
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What temporary host are sometime referred to as
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Parasitoid
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Insects whose immature stages feed on their hosts body and kills the host
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Protelean parasite
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Insects in which only the immature stages are parasitic
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Examples of protelean parasite
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Mermithid nematodes
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Taxonomy
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The science of classification
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Macroparasite
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Large parasites that do not multiply in or on the host.
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Microparasites
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Small parasites that multiply within the host
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Examples of macroparasites
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Adult tapeworms adult trematodes most nematodes acanthocephalans Ticks Fleas |
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Examples of microparasites
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Bacteria Rickettsia Trypanosomes amebas |
