Intro to parasite

Question 1

How many types of symbiotic relationships are there?

Answer 1

There are 5 types

Question 2

What are the types of symbiotic relationships?

Answer 2

Predator/ prey
Commensalism
Phoresis
Mutualism
Parasitism

Question 3

What is a predator/prey relationship?

Answer 3

One is being benefited at the others expense

Question 4

What is an incidental parasite?

Answer 4

The parasite is in the wrong host in the wrong location

Question 5

What is superparasitism?

Answer 5

Multiples of the same parasite

Question 6

What is an endoparasite?

Answer 6

A parasite that lives in the body of the host

Question 7

What is an example of an endoparasite?

Answer 7

Heartworm

Question 8

What is an ectoparasite?

Answer 8

A parasite that lives on the body of the host

Question 9

What is an example of an ectoparasite?

Answer 9

Flea

Question 10

What is multiparasitism?

Answer 10

Different types of parasites living in/on one host

Question 11

How is the hosts expense deterimed?

Answer 11

Trivial
sunbstantial
Unbearable

Question 12

What are two types of migration?

Answer 12

Tracheal

Somatic

Question 13

What is an example of a fluke?

Answer 13

Fasciola Hepatica

Question 14

What is a definitive host?

Answer 14

A host that harbors the adult stage of a parasite

Question 15

What is a transport host?

Answer 15

A host that is used by a parasite for transportation

Question 16

What type of life cycle do dog and cat flukes have?

Answer 16

Indirect

Question 17

What are the physical features of a fluke?

Answer 17

They are flat, leaf-shaped, and look similar to leeches. They also have suckers, hooks, or clam-like appendages.

Question 18

What is an erratic or aberrant parasite?

Answer 18

It is a parasite that wanders to an unusual location in which it doesn’t typically live.

Question 19

What is an obligatory parasite?

Answer 19

A parasite that must live inside the host in order to survive.

Question 20

What is a psuedoparasite?

Answer 20

An object or creature that can be mistaken for a parasite, but is not an actual parasite.

Question 21

What is an indirect life cycle?

Answer 21

The parasite must go through a host in order to develop.

Question 22

Explain somatic migration.

Answer 22

Larvae travels from the stomach, through the hepatic portal circulation, then throught the liver and then proceeds to travel to different sites.

Question 23

Parasitism relationship

Answer 23

Involves two different species of organisms in which one lives on/in the other and may potentially cause harm.

Question 24

What is a parasite?

Answer 24

A small organism that lives on/ina larger organism that is the host.

Question 25

What are the majorclasses of parasites?

Answer 25

Multiple parasitism | Superparasitism

Question 26

What is a zoonotic disease?

Answer 26

A disease that can be transmitted between human and animal

Question 27

What is a direct life cycle?

Answer 27

A parasite is able to continue its life cycle in the same host

Question 28

What is a phoresis relationship?

Answer 28

Using another member to hitch a ride

Question 29

What is an intermediate host?

Answer 29

A host that harbors larvae, or immature stages of the parasite.

Question 30

What is tracheal migration?

Answer 30

Similar to somatic migration, but continues up the trachea and then into the esophagus only to end up where they started/

Question 31

What is an example of a protozoa?

Answer 31

Giardia

Question 32

Does a tapeworm require an intermediate host? | What is it?

Answer 32

Yes | Flea

Question 33

What isa periodic parastie?

Answer 33

A parastie that must make short frequent visits to a hostfor nourishment.

Question 34

Which period is longer, prepatent or incubation?

Answer 34

Incubation

Question 35

What is symbiosis

Answer 35

Living together

Question 36

The host's expense may be...

Answer 36

Trivial, substantial or even unbearable

Question 37

What are the physical features of a tapeworm?

Answer 37

They are flat and segmented and have suckers on their heads

Question 38

What is an incubation period?

Answer 38

The time it takes a parasite to infect a host to the time it takes for the signs or symptoms to occur

Question 39

What is a prepatent period?

Answer 39

The time it takes a parasite to enter the host to how long it takes to be detected.

Question 40

What is a mutualism relationship?

Answer 40

Both organisms benefit

Question 41

Another word for helminths

Answer 41

Worm

Question 42

What are the physical features of a nematode?

Answer 42

They are round in cross-section, longer than they are wide and unsegmented

Question 43

What is an example of a helminth?

Answer 43

Roundworm

Question 44

What are some examples of arthropods?

Answer 44

Insects | Arachnids

Question 45

What is the difference between infection and infestation?

Answer 45

Infection-Caused by a parasite within the body | Infestation- Outside/ on the body or environment

Question 46

What are the two classifications of parasitism?

Answer 46

Multiple parasitisms | Superparasitism

Question 47

What is a commensalism relationship?

Answer 47

One benefits, the other doesn't and the other is not harmed.