Week One: Parasitology And Parasites That Infect (Chapter Two)

Question 0

Kingdom, phylum, class, and subclass of monogenetic trematodes

Answer 0

Kingdom: animalia
Phylum: Platyhelminthes
Class: Trematoda
Subclass: monogenea

Question 1

What are trematodes?

Answer 1

Flukes

Question 2

What are platyheminthes?

Answer 2

Flatworms

Question 3

Monogenetic trematodes are found on what type of animals?

Answer 3

Ectoparasites of fish, amphibians, and reptiles

Question 4

What are some characteristics of digenetic trematodes?

Answer 4

Have two intermediate hosts

First and second intermediate hosts, and definitive host

Question 5

Kingdom, phylum, class, and subclass of digenetic trematodes

Answer 5

Kingdom: animalia
Phylum: platyheminthes
Class: trematoda
Subclass: digenea

Question 6

What do digenetic trematodes look like?

Answer 6

Flattened, leaf shaped flukes

Question 7

What type of animals are digenetic trematodes seen on

Answer 7

Both large and small animals

Question 8

Where (in the body) are digenetic trematodes located?

Answer 8

Primarily in GI tract

Can also infect lungs and vasculature

Question 9

What does an operculated egg look like?

Answer 9

Stewie’s head

Oval like with openings on one or both sides

Question 10

What is paragonimus kellicotti

Answer 10

Digenetic trematode

Lung fluke in cats and dogs

Question 11

What are eucestodes

Answer 11

True tapeworms

Ribbon like flatworms

Question 12

What are the kingdom, phylum, and class of eucestodes?

Answer 12

Kingdom: animalia
Phylum: Platyhelminthes
Class: Eucestoda

Question 13

How are eucestodes frequently observed?

Answer 13

Fecal flotation

Question 14

How do eucestodes receive their nutrients?

Answer 14

Absorb nutrients through their tegument (skin)

Question 15

What is the intermediate host?

Answer 15

The animals harboring the larval stages of a parasite

Question 16

What are nematodes?

Answer 16

Round worms

Have enlongated, un segmented, cylindrical bodies

Question 17

What is the kingdom and phylum of nematodes?

Answer 17

Kingdom: animalia
Phylum: Nematoda

Question 18

What is the most numerous and complex parasite among domestic animals?

Answer 18

Nematodes

Question 19

What are acanthocephalans?

Answer 19

Thorny headed worms

Possess a spiny proboscis on anterior ends

Question 20

What is the kingdom and phylum of acanthocephalans?

Answer 20

Kingdom: animalia
Phylum: acanthocephala

Question 21

What are hirudineans?

Answer 21

Leeches

Blood feeding ectoparasites of wild and domesticated animals

Question 22

What are the kingdom, phylum, and class of hirudineans?

Answer 22

Kingdom: animalia
Phylum: annelida
Class: hirudinea

Question 23

What are some examples of arthropods?

Answer 23

Pentastomes
Crustaceans
Centipedes
Millipedes
Insects
Mites
Ticks
Scorpions
Spiders

Question 24

What are the kingdom and phylum of arthropods?

Answer 24

Kingdom: animalia Phylum: arthropoda

Question 25

What are pentastomes?

Answer 25

Tongue worms or linguatulids | adults usually parasitize snakes and other reptiles

Question 26

What are crustaceans?

Answer 26

Exctoparasites of fish and amphibians

Question 27

What are paragonimus kellicotti?

Answer 27

Crayfish

Question 28

What are myriopoda and what are some examples?

Answer 28

Multiple feet parasites Produce venoms and toxic substances Centipedes and millipedes

Question 29

What are ictyoptera?

Answer 29

Cockroaches

Question 30

What are coleoptera?

Answer 30

Beetles

Question 31

What are Lepidoptera?

Answer 31

Butterflies and moths

Question 32

What are hymenoptera?

Answer 32

Ants, bees, and wasps

Question 33

What are hemiptera?

Answer 33

True bugs

Question 34

What are mallophaga?

Answer 34

Chewing or biting lice

Question 35

What are anoplura?

Answer 35

Sucking lice

Question 36

what are diptera?

Answer 36

Two winged flies

Question 37

What are siphonaptera?

Answer 37

Fleas

Question 38

What are examples are acarina and what is different about them?

Answer 38

Mites and ticks | Have four life stages

Question 39

What are the four life stages of acarina?

Answer 39

Egg stage Larval stage Nymphal stage Adult stage

Question 40

What are some characteristics of arthropods? (KNOW THIS)

Answer 40

Important in veterinary medicine Serve as causal agents Serve as intermediate hosts (helminthes, protozoans) Serve as vectors (bacteria, viruses, spirochetes, chlamydial agents) May produce toxins or venomous substances May parasitize the host as adult or juvenile stages

Question 41

What is the largest phylum in the animal kingdom?

Answer 41

Arthropoda | Includes most of the ectoparasites seen in the veterinary profession

Question 42

What are Protista?

Answer 42

Protozoa Unicellular organisms Majority are free living

Question 43

What are examples of Protista?

Answer 43

Flagellates Amoebae Apicomplexans Ciliates

Question 44

What are flagellates?

Answer 44

Flagellum Have long whip like or lash like appendage that is used by a group of protozoans as means of locomotion in a fluid medium

Question 45

What are amoeboa?

Answer 45

``` Pseudopodia Have false feet Amorphous (no real shape) Blob like Flow along in a liquid medium ```

Question 46

What are apicomplexans?

Answer 46

Most diverse and complicated | Locomotory organells are internal and not visible to the naked eye

Question 47

What are ciliates?

Answer 47

Covered with tiny short hairs | Move by beating, undulating hairs in a liquid medium