Exam 1 Flashcards
Symbiosis
Close, long-term relationships between organisms
Mutualism
Both host and symbiont benefit from interaction
Commensalism
Symbiont benefits and the host is not affected
Phoresy
Type of commensalism where the symbiont gets transportation from host
Inquilinism
Type of commensalism where symbiont gets a home from host
Parasitism
Symbiont benefits and host is harmed
Amensalism
One partner is harmed and the other is not affected
Biomass
Matter an organism is made of
Metabolism
Chemical reactions organisms carry out
Work
Behaviors organisms engage in
Products
Things organisms make
ectoparasites
live on the outside of the host’s body, like ticks, fleas, or lice
endoparasites
live on the inside of host’s body, like tapeworms, flukes, intestinal roundworms, and parasitic protists
mesoparasites
live partially inside and outside of the host’s body, like Pennella balaenopterae found on whales and dolphins
facultative parasites
can survive as free-living organisms, but will parasitize a host given the opportunity
Naegleria fowleri
brain-eating amoeba that is facultative, but will cause amoebic meningoencephalitis (fatal)
accidental parasites
parasites that enter the wrong host and do not survive for long
Baylisacaris
roundworms that normally infect racoons, but if accidentally parasitize humans they get into the brain
hyperparasites
parasites of parasites
Udonella caligorum
hyperparasite that parasitize lepeophtheirus hospitalis (parasite of fish)
monoxenous
parasite that lives it’s entire life cycle in one host
Monocystis
monoxenous parasite