Protazoans Trypanosoma Flashcards
Trypanosoma
are parasites living in blood or other tissues of all classes of vertebrates. purple and found in the blood
obligate heterotrophs
lack chlorophyll and obtain organic and inorganic requirements from the environment.
environment
is body fluid. they cause disease especially sleeping sickness. ( caused from tsetse flies)
Trichonympha
live in digestive tracts of roaches and termites.
t. campanula
lives in the gut of american termites and is a good example of symbiotic mutualism.
symbiotic mutualism
parasite and other organism cant live without one another.
how does trichonympha resemble trypanosoma
more than 1 ring, large nucleous, they differ because trichonympha is clear and trichonympha is white large and fewer.
dinoflagellates
found in mostly marine plankton, arrangement of 2 flagella.
giardia intestinalis
it enters the drinking water contaminated with raw sewage and causes a severe diarrhea with dehydration intestinal pain and weight loss. tiny circular little hairs