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Parasitology Exam 1 with100% correct answers 2024
Parasitology - answer Study of the most common mode of life on
earth
Parasitology - answer Centered on animal parasites of humans,
domestic animals, and wildlife
Animal parasites - answer Parasitology is centered on
Parasite - answer An organism that lived in or on another organism
and either harms the host or lives at the expense of the host
Parasitic clams - answer Alter their mantle to make it look like a
fish. Used as a decoy to attract bigger fish
Crustacean Parasite - answer Tongue-eating isopod. Sucks the blood
from the tongue. It replaces the organ and retains the same
function of that organ.
Vampire bat - answer Only mammalian parasite that takes blood
meals on mammals
Plant parasites - answer Use haustoria to insert into the hosts'
vascular system
Bird Parasites - answer Brood parasitism (reduces fecundity)
,Parasitic fish - answer Toothpick fish attracted to ammonia. Latch
onto gills and suck blood
Parasitic frogs - answer The male or Rana lessonae mates with the
female of Rana ridibunda and hybridization occurs. This is only
beneficial to Rana ridibunda because only its chromosomes are
passed on.
Symbiosis - answer Interaction among organisms in which one
organism lived with, in, or on the body of another
Symbionts - answer Organisms involved in symbiotic relationship
with other organisms, the hosts.
Neutralism - answer Lack of benefit or detriment experienced by
either members of the pair of interacting organisms
Neutralism - answer Fitness of one species has absolutely no effect
whatsoever on that of the other species.
Competition - answer Some degree of overlap in ecological niches of
two populations in the same community, such that both depend on
the same food source, shelter, or other resources, and negatively
affect each other's survival.
Competition - answer Some degree of overlap in ecological niches of
two populations in the same community in which both species are
negatively affected
Phoresis - answer Form of symbiosis when the symbiont is
mechanically carried about by its host.
, Phoresis - answer Form of symbiosis in which the species are not
physiologically depended on the other. It means "to carry"
Protocooperation - answer A mutually beneficial interaction
between organisms in which the interaction is not physiologically
necessary to the survival of either.
Mutualism - answer Type of symbiosis in which both host and
symbiont benefit from association and there is physiological
dependence.
Commensalism - answer Kind of symbiosis in which the symbiont
benefits, and the host is neither harmed nor helped by the
association.
Commensalism - answer Means "eating at the same table"
Amensalism - answer Asymmetrical interaction in which one
organism causes a negative effect on another without being
positively or negatively affected in return.
Predation - answer Animal interaction in which a predator kills its
prey outright, it does not subsist on the prey while the prey is alive.
Parasitism - answer A symbiosis in which a symbiont benefits from
the association while it harms the host in some way or lives at the
expense of it.
Host or prey - answer Both parasite and the predator live at the
expense of the
Macroparasites - answer Large parasite that does not multiply in the
host of interest
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