Parasites Flashcards

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1st name/ always capitalized

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Genus (always italicized or underlined)

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Last name/always lowercase

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Species (always italicized or underlined)

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Feeding/phagocytosis/engulfing

Whole/animal-like

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Holozoic

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Just like plants they absorb their food

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Holophytic feeders

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Less locomotion

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Greater parasite

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Single cell parasites

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Protozoa

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Holozoic

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“Amoeba proteus”

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Has cilia, have rapid locomotion, holozoic

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“Paramecium caudatum”

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(Amoebic dysentery) holozoic

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“Entamoeba histolytica”

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(West African trypanosomiasis)

Phlatulum in circulatory system

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“Trypanosoma gambiense”

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(Benign tertian malaria)
Moves from host by mosquito
Uses host to multiply and get around
Greatest concern cause less locomotion greater parasite you’ll be malaria)
Moves from host by mosquito
Uses host to multiply and get around
Greatest concern cause less locomotion greater parasite you’ll be

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“Plasmodium vivax”

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“Cryptospiridium parvum”

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Moves through water system
Uses host to multiply and get around
Greatest concern cause less locomotion the greater parasite you’ll be

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“Giardia lamblia”

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(Giardiasis)

Moves from water

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“Trichomonas vaginalis”

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(STD) water, towel, clothing

Lives in digestive system and eats intestinal walls

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15
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@4x

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12.5 micrometers

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@10x

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5 micrometers

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@40x

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1.25 micrometers

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@100x

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.5 micrometers

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Helminths

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Worms
Multicellular
Take from the host and don’t give anything back

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Hermaphroditic

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Can fertilize their own eggs

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Holophytic

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Can absorb nutrients then reproduce

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“Phylum platyhelminthes”

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Flat worms

Require water

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What are the 3 most frequently used media in micro lab?

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TSA plate, tryptic soy broth, TSA slant

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How much agar do we add to broth to make a solid? Liquid to solid

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1 1/2 % agar to make broth

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What degrees centigrade is our body temp?
37 degrees centigrade
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Class Trematoda
Flukes | Flukes=flat
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Fasciola hepatica
Liver flukes Slowly eat away your liver Pronounced reproductive and digestive tract
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Clonorchis sinensis
Oriental liver fluke | 2-3 mm in length
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Schistosoma sp.
Blood fluke Not hermaphroditic In circulatory system Once they find each other it's continuous release of eggs Castaic lake-bird, ducks, snails are the host
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Class Cestoda
Tapeworms Roundworm Pinworm Hookworm
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Taenia sp. (proglotids) stage in life cycle of the worm
Tapeworm-wide back and forth inside digestive tract
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Phylum Nematoda
Unsegmented roundworm | Regular straw-not flex straw
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Ascaris lumbricoides
Source-animals Can burrow from organ to organ Reside and develop quickly in lungs then move to digestive system More primitive/short time survival outside host *high humidity *warm *ex:tropics
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Enteroblus vermicularis
Pinworm | Children/sandbox
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Necator americanus
Hookworm | S. East
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Trichinella spiralis
Want host to be eaten Raw pork Barefoot=burrows Lives in muscle
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Wuchereria bancrofti
Elephantiasis Block lymphatic ducts Grows in numbers Lymph fluid drops and swelling in lower extremities Remodulates protein coating to keep from being destroyed
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Survival
Organism that can outpopulate another, #'s of offspring
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Hermaphroditic
Has both sets of reproductive organs
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Ventral sucker
Allows them to suction to surface
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Oral sucker
Eating
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What are the three primary factors that affect the resolving power of a lens system?
1. distance between 2 objects that reveals them as being separate. 2. Wavelength of light used to illuminate the specimen 3. numerical aperture of the lens, which is the ability of the lens to gather light
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Saprophytic
Organisms that subsist decaying