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Exam 1 Flashcards

1
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Symbiosis

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Close, long-term relationships between organisms

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Mutualism

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Both host and symbiont benefit from interaction

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Commensalism

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Symbiont benefits and the host is not affected

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Phoresy

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Type of commensalism where the symbiont gets transportation from host

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Inquilinism

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Type of commensalism where symbiont gets a home from host

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Parasitism

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Symbiont benefits and host is harmed

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Amensalism

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One partner is harmed and the other is not affected

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Biomass

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Matter an organism is made of

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Metabolism

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Chemical reactions organisms carry out

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Work

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Behaviors organisms engage in

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Products

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Things organisms make

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ectoparasites

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live on the outside of the host’s body, like ticks, fleas, or lice

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endoparasites

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live on the inside of host’s body, like tapeworms, flukes, intestinal roundworms, and parasitic protists

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mesoparasites

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live partially inside and outside of the host’s body, like Pennella balaenopterae found on whales and dolphins

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facultative parasites

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can survive as free-living organisms, but will parasitize a host given the opportunity

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Naegleria fowleri

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brain-eating amoeba that is facultative, but will cause amoebic meningoencephalitis (fatal)

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accidental parasites

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parasites that enter the wrong host and do not survive for long

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Baylisacaris

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roundworms that normally infect racoons, but if accidentally parasitize humans they get into the brain

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hyperparasites

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parasites of parasites

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Udonella caligorum

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hyperparasite that parasitize lepeophtheirus hospitalis (parasite of fish)

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monoxenous

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parasite that lives it’s entire life cycle in one host

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Monocystis

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monoxenous parasite

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autoinfection

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offspring of parasites parasitize the same host individual

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Strongyloides

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parasite that can autoinfect

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heteroxenous

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parasites that have their different life cycles in different hosts

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definitive host

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host that supports the adult or sexually reproductive cycle of a parasite

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intermediate host

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host that supports the larval or asexually reproducing stage of a parasite

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reservoir host

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primary host that holds the parasite until it jumps to another host, usually not negatively affected by parasite

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black rats and Yersinia pestis

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reservoir hosts for bubonic plague bacteria

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paratenic host

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transports parasite and allows it to mature until it is able to parasitize optimal host

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Dicotophyme renale

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paratenic host that is carried in fish until it is able to parasitize mink

32
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the two-fold cost of sex

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asexual reproduction is faster but sexual reproduction creates genetic variation (John Maynard Smith)

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Significance of Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg

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he determined unicellular protozoans were their own complete organisms

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Significance of Haeckel (1866)

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he proposed the Kingdom Protista for fungi and prokaryotes

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Significance of Chatton (1937)

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he made the distinction between prokaryotes and eukaryotes

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Significance of Whittaker (1969)

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separated fungi into its own kingdom

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Kingdom Protista

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contains organisms that do not fit into the other groups, no embryonic development or extensive cellular differentiation

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Eukaryotic parasites

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5 supergroups, defined by similarities in DNA sequences as well as structural similarities

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Classes of eukaryotic parasites

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Amoebozoa, Excavata, SAR, Opisthokonta, Archaeplastida

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SAR

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Supergroup of parasites that contain Stramenopiles, Alveolata, and Rhizaria

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Ameobozoa

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cells with no fixed shape, they use amoeboid locomotion (scooting along using cytoplasm)

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Acanthamoeba

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free-living aquatic amoeba, can form resistant cysts, facultative parasite

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Entamoeba histolytica

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amoeba that causes amoebic dysentery, active as trophozoites, inactive as cysts

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trophozoite

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growing stage of some parasites when they are absorbing nutrients from the host

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cyst

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resistant stage of parasites when they are usually passed in feces and ineffective

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Excavata characteristics

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Flagella, specialized feeding grooves, many use anaerobic respiration through hydrogenosomes, include free-living, pathogens, and symbionts

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Excavata clades

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Discoba and Metamonada

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Discoba includes

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Euglenozoa (trypanosomes) and Heterolobosea (amoeboflagellate)

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metamonada includes

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preaxostyla, fornicata (giardia), and parabasalia

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euglenoza includes

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euglenids and kinetoplastids

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Euglenids

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free-living organisms with chloroplasts and pellicle (protein on cytoskeleton, give flexibility and maintain shape)

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Kinetoplastids

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have kinetoplast, dark eyespot, mitochondrial DNA, include trypanosoma (Chagas and African Sleeping sickness) and leishmania

53
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Which stage of trypanasomatid?

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Amastigote, no flagellum

54
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Which stage of trypanosomatid?

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Promastigote, anterior flagellum

55
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Which stage of trypanosomatid?

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Ophishtomastigote, flagellum in pocket

56
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Which stage of trypanosomatid?

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Epimastigote, flagellum along side

57
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Which stage of trypanosomatid?

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Trypomastigote

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