Chapter 1 key terms

Question 1

Aberrant parasite

Answer 1

another name for erratic parasites- organ or location in which it does not ordinarily live

Question 2

Acaricides

Answer 2

compounds that kill mites and ticks

Question 3

Animalia

Answer 3

kingdom for animals- includes platyhelminthes, trematodes, cestodes, acanthocephalans, annelids, and arthropods

Question 4

Anthelmintics

Answer 4

compounds that kill roundworms, tapeworms, flukes, and thorny-headed worms

Question 5

Antiprotozoals

Answer 5

compounds that kill protozoa

Question 6

Classification System

Answer 6

Kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species

Question 7

Commensalism

Answer 7

one symbiont benefits and the other is neither harmed nor benefited

Question 8

Common name

Answer 8

may refer to different organisms in different places

Question 9

Definitive host

Answer 9

host that harbors the adult, sexual, or mature stages

Question 10

Ectoparasite

Answer 10

lives on the body of the host

Question 11

Ectoparasitism

Answer 11

parasitism by an external parasite

Question 12

Endoparasitism

Answer 12

parasitism by an internal parasite

Question 13

Erratic parasite

Answer 13

another name for Aberrant parasites- organ or location in which it does not ordinarily live

Question 14

Euryxenous parasite

Answer 14

broad host range

Question 15

Facultative parasite

Answer 15

free- living and is non-parasitic

Question 16

Fungi

Answer 16

kingdom for fungi

Question 17

Genus name

Answer 17

first word is capitalized

Question 18

Homoxenous parasite

Answer 18

parasite that will infect only one type of host

-also known as monoxenous

Question 19

Host

Answer 19

a member that a parasite lives within

Question 20

Incidental parasite

Answer 20

parasite can occur in a host in which it does not usually live

Question 21

Infection

Answer 21

caused by an endoparasite

Question 22

Infestation

Answer 22

ectoparasite will produce this

Question 23

Insecticides

Answer 23

compounds that kill insects

Question 24

Intermediate host

Answer 24

harbors the larval, juvenile, immature or asexual stages

Question 25

Life cycle

Answer 25

has at least one definitive host

Question 26

Monera

Answer 26

kingdom for algea

Question 27

Monoxenous parasite

Answer 27

parasite that will infect only one type of host | -also known as homoxenous

Question 28

Mutualism

Answer 28

both organisms benefit cow and the bacteria in the rumen

Question 29

Obligatory parasite

Answer 29

parasite that must lead a parasitic existence

Question 30

Parasite

Answer 30

the member that lives inside the other

Question 31

Parasitosis

Answer 31

does produce obvious harm or injury to the host

Question 32

Parasiticides

Answer 32

chemical compounds that treat internal and external parasites

Question 33

Parasitism

Answer 33

one member lives on or within the other

Question 34

Parasitology

Answer 34

the study of parasitic relationships

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Paratenic Host

Answer 35

same as transport host- where the encysted lives

Question 36

Periodic parasite

Answer 36

make frequent short visits to the host, they dont live on it

Question 37

Phoresis

Answer 37

means to carry- pinkeye in cattle

Question 38

Planta

Answer 38

kingdom for plants

Question 39

Predator

Answer 39

what does the eating and benefits

Question 40

Predator-Prey relationship

Answer 40

very short-term and one benefits at the others expense such as a zebra and lion

Question 41

Prey

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what gets eaten

Question 42

Protista

Answer 42

kingdom protozoans or unicellular organisms

Question 43

Pseudoparasite

Answer 43

they are not parasitic

Question 44

Reservoir host

Answer 44

a vertebrate host in which a parasite or disease occurs in nature

Question 45

Scientific name

Answer 45

written in italics

Question 46

Specific epithet

Answer 46

indicates the type of animal itself

Question 47

Stenoxenous parasite

Answer 47

parasite with a narrow host range

Question 48

Symbiont

Answer 48

each member of a relationship

Question 49

Symbiosis

Answer 49

an association between two living organisms of different species

Question 50

Transport host

Answer 50

same as paratenic host- where the encysted lives

Question 51

Veterinary parasitology

Answer 51

study of parasitic relationships effecting animals

Question 52

Zoonosis

Answer 52

is any disease or parasite that is transmissible from animals to humans

Question 53

endoparasite

Answer 53

lives within the body

Question 54

encysted

Answer 54

remains in arrested state, or suspended animation