Micro Final (new content) Flashcards
A ________ parasite is an organism that may become parasitic but does not require a _____ for completion of its life cycle
Facultative; host
Which of the following statements are correct:
a) Ectoparasites can live part of their life cycle as free-living
b) A caligid copepod living on skin of fish is an ectoparasite
c) A cestode platyhelminth living in the intestine of fish is an endoparasite
d) All of the above are correct
d) all of the above
What is true of epibiosis and phoresis?
a) They are facultative obligate parasites
b) They involve mutual parasitism
c) It is the “act of being carried”
d) all of the above
c) It is the act of being carried
Flagellates feeding on bacteria that is on the surface of a fish, and Entamoeba sp. also feeding on bacteria in the human intestine are examples of what?
a) Parasitism
b) Commensalism
c) Epibiotic and phoresis
d) None of the above
b) commensalism
True or False
In commensalism the host benefits but is not harmed
False
The host neither benefits or is harmed
Vermiform (or worm-like) in form, helminths are parasitic worms that are large and multicellular. What 4 phylum fall under this category?
a) Phylum Nematoda
b) Phylum Platyhelminthes
c) Phylum Acanthocephala
d) Phylum Annelida
What phylum are roundworms?
a) Nematoda
b) Platyhelminthes
c) Acanthocephala
d) Annelida
a) Nematoda
What phylum do flatworms belong?
a) Nematoda
b) Platyhelminthes
c) Acanthocephala
d) Annelida
b) Platyhelminthes
In what phylum do thorny-headed worms belong?
a) Nematoda
b) Platyhelminthes
c) Acanthocephala
d) Annelida
c) Acanthocephala
In what phylum do segmented, non-parasitic worms belong?
a) Nematoda
b) Platyhelminthes
c) Acanthocephala
d) Annelida
d) Annelida (ex: leeches)
What class do tapeworms belong?
a) Cestoda
b) Trematoda
c) Monogenea
d) Turbellaria
a) Cestoda
In what class do endoparasitic flukes belong?
a) Cestoda
b) Trematoda
c) Monogenea
d) Turbellaria
b) Trematoda
In what class do ectoparasitic skin flukes belong?
a) Cestoda
b) Trematoda
c) Monogenea
d) Turbellaria
c) Monogenea
In what class do free-living flatworms belong?
a) Cestoda
b) Trematoda
c) Monogenea
d) Turbellaria
d) Turbellaria
Which of the following statements is false:
a) Parasites are smaller than their host
b) Parasites reduce host fitness
c) Parasites typically kill the host
d) They reproduce after than the host
c) Parasites typically kill the host - They DO NOT typically kill their host as that would not benefit them
Required, serves as temporary but necessary host for continued development of essential life stages
a) Intermediate host
b) Paratenic host
c) Aberrant host
d) Dead-end host
a) Intermediate host
A non-required transport host in which no development of the parasite occurs
a) Intermediate host
b) Paratenic host
c) Aberrant host
d) Dead-end host
b) Paratenic host (or transport host)
Host not usually used by the parasite, development is slow or incomplete
a) Intermediate host
b) Paratenic host
c) Aberrant host
d) Dead-end host
c) Aberrant host (or abnormal host)
A host that generally does not allow transmission to the definitive host, thereby preventing the parasite from completing its development
a) Intermediate host
b) Paratenic host
c) Aberrant host
d) Dead-end host
d) Dead-end host (or incidental host)
Which of the following is a correct statement regarding direct/simple life cycles:
a) Only one host is required
b) Can be host specific or broad spectrum
c) Parasites without an IH have direct life cycles
d) all of the above
d) All of the above
Sexual reproduction takes place in what type of host?
a) Intermediate
b) Dead end
c) Definitive
d) none of the above
c) Definitive
Which of the following is true regarding indirect life cycles?
a) Two or more hosts required
b) The final host is the definitive host
c) There are stages of the life cycle in the host as well as the environment
d) All of the above are correct
d) all of the above
The canine heartworm is an example of what type of life cycle?
a) Direct life cycle
b) Indirect
c) Direct w/ paratenic host
d) Direct w/ aberrant host
b) Indirect
In the life cycle of toxocara canis, adult worms lay eggs in the small intestines, which are then excreted through feces and may be digested by mice. The mice then can excrete the eggs which are then ingested by the dog or cat, starting the life cycle over again. What type of life cycle and host is exemplified with this example? Explain your answer.
Direct life cycle; Paratenic host
DIrect life cycle because only one host is required. Paratenic host because it doesn’t need the host for development and is just used for “transport”
True or False
In the example of Toxocara canis, the mouse is a required host for the complete life cycle of the parasite
False - The mouse is not required as no development takes place
In a heartworm infection, the dog is the ______ host and the mosquito is the ________ host.
Definitive; intermediate
In the direct life cycle of Toxocara canis, the dog serves as the ______ host and the mouse serves as the ______ host. Humans can also play a role as ______ hosts.
Definitive; paratenic; aberrant (dead-end)
Nematode lungworms have an ________ life cycle with a ________ host
Indirect; paratenic
In the life cycle of the nematode lung worms, snails are the ______ host, birds are the ______ host, and cats are the ______ host
Intermediate; Paratenic; definitive
Term most often used for arrested development that has a seasonal basis, such as in nematodes.
a) Hypobiosis
b) Predilection site
c) Aberrant site
d) None of the above
a) Hypobiosis
The preferred site in or on the host
a) Hypobiosis
b) Predilection site
c) Aberrant site
d) None of the above
b) Predilection site
The site in or on the host which is not a normal location
a) Hypobiosis
b) Predilection site
c) Aberrant site
d) None of the above
c) Aberrant site
Which of the following correctly correlate with complex life cycles:
a) Only involves one host
b) Is an uncommon feature of parasitic animals
c) While it has advantages, one disadvantage can be mode of transmission
d) All of the above
c) While it has advantages, one disadvantage can be mode of transmission
_________ transmission uses many hosts linked via food chains to be transmitted from one host to the next
Trophic
Which of the following is true regarding trophically transmitted parasites:
a) They can trick their hosts into eating them at any life stage
b) They can only trick their hosts once they have developed into a stage capable of infecting the next host
c) Once they are within the host they no longer cause infection- they simply mature there until excretion
d) None of the above are correct
b) They can only trick their hosts once they have developed into a stage capable of infecting the next host
“Zombie snails” (Leucochloridium paradoxum) and “Fatal Feline Attraction” (toxoplama gondii) are both examples of what type of transmission?
Trophic transmission
Which of the following is true of Leucochloridium paradoxum
a) “Zombie snails”
b) Gastropod is the intermediate host
c) It is a parasitic trematode (flatworm)
d) The bird is the definitive host
e) all of the above
e) all of the above
True or False
All trematodes have complex life cycles
True
Which of the following statements is correct:
a) Toxoplasma gondii can infect any animal but only reproduce sexually in cats
b) Toxoplasma gondii reproduces within almost any warm-blooded animal
c) Toxoplasma gondii has a simple life cycle
d) All of the above are correct
a) T. gondii can infect any animal but only reproduces sexually in cats
Monogenea are ectoparasitic flatworms that are part of the phylum Platyheminthes. They are ancestrally related to Turbellaria and closest to modern cestodes. What type of life cycle do they have?
Direct life cycle
Which of the following is true regarding Monogenea?
a) Gyrodactylus are viviparous monogeneans
b) Undonella spp used to have hooks, which have since been lost through evolution
c) They are ectoparasites with direct life cycles
d) All of the above
d) All of the above
_________ occurs when the smaller symbiont feeds on the unwanted or unused food in or on the surface of the host, in which the host neither is harmed nor benefits
Commensalism
Udonella have an _________ relationship with the copepod, but they feed directly from the fish or from fish mucus disturbed by the copepod
Obligate
Udonella are best described as:
a) facultative
b) epibionts
c) commensals
d) ectocommensals
d) ectocommensals
Which of the following correctly describes the class Trematoda?
a) Flukes
b) Endoparasites
c) Helminthes
d) Digeneans
e) all of the above
e) all of the above
Fasciola hepatica is what type of fluke?
Liver fluke
True or False
Trematodes are hermaphroditic but can cross-reproduce
True
What type of egg is seen in this image?
a) Nematode
b) Cestode
c) Trematode
d) Annelida
c) Trematode
What correctly describes this photo?
a) Trematode
b) Nematode
c) Fasciola hepatica
d) A and C
e) none of the above
d) A and C
True or False
All trematodes have direct life cycles
FALSE - they do not have direct life cycles
Where does maturation of liver flukes occur?
a) Liver
b) Intestines
c) bile ducts
d) None of the above
c) bile ducts
During the larval stages of liver flukes, _______ burrow through the lining of the intestines and into the peritoneal cavity
Metacercaria