Random Deck for Slow People

Question 1

What Kingdom are we pulling from?

Which Group for Helminths?

Which phylum for flatworms? With which two in that phylum?

Phylum for roundworms? Which in that category?

Answer 1

Kingdom Animalia

Group Helminths

Phylum Platyhelminthes (flatworms)

• Cestodes
• Trematodes

Phylum Nemathelminthes / Nematoda (roundworms)

Question 2

What are flatworms?

Answer 2

Cestodes and Trematodes

Phylum Platyhelminthes (flatworms)

Question 3

What are the roundworms?

Answer 3

Phylum Nemathelminthes / Nematoda (roundworms)

Question 4

Characteristics of Helminths?

Answer 4

Multicellular (elongated and bilaterally symmetric)

Larger than protozoan parasites

Tegument

Attachment structures

No circulatory canal

Question 5

What is tegument

Answer 5

protective covering or cuticle

-smooth, ridged, spines or tubercles

Question 6

what is a chain of proglottids (segments)?

Answer 6

strobila

Question 7

How do adult tapeworms reproduce

Answer 7

proglottids: reproduce sexually through
scolex: reproduces asexually by budding

Question 8

what is the pointed end of scolex that has points of attachments (suckers, hooklets, etc)

Answer 8

Rostellum

Question 9

which cestode has a lid?

Answer 9

Latum has a Lid

lid (cover) = operculum or operculated eggs which is found in the….

Diphyllobothrium latum

Question 10

onconosphere?

Answer 10

six-hooked larval form of some cestodes

EX: Taenia saginata (cattle) or Taenia solium (pigs)