Parasitology - correct answer ✔✔area of biology concerned with the phenomenon of dependence of
one living organism on another
Medical Parasitology - correct answer ✔✔concerned primarily with parasites that affect humans
Tropical medicine - correct answer ✔✔branch of medicine that deals with tropical diseases and other
special medical problems of tropical regions
Tropical disease - correct answer ✔✔an illness that is indigenous to or endemic in a tropical area but
may also occur in sporadic or epidemic proportions in areas that are not tropical
Symbiosis - correct answer ✔✔living together of unlike organisms which might involve protection or
other advantages to one or both organisms
Commensalism - correct answer ✔✔two species live together and one species benefits from the
relationship without harming or benefiting the other
Commensalism - correct answer ✔✔Entamoeba coli is an example of what symbiosis
Mutualism - correct answer ✔✔two organisms mutually benefit from each other
Mutualism - correct answer ✔✔Termites and flagellates are examples of what symbiosis
Parasitism - correct answer ✔✔one organism, the parasite, lives in or on another, depending on the
latter, for its survival and usually at the expense of the host
- correct answer ✔✔E. histolytica and C. exigua are examples of what symbiosis
, Endoparasite - correct answer ✔✔parasite that lives inside its host
Ectoparasite - correct answer ✔✔parasite that lives outside its host
Infection - correct answer ✔✔Presence of endoparasite
Infestation - correct answer ✔✔Presence of ectoparasite
Obligate - correct answer ✔✔Most parasites are _______________ parasites as they needed a host to
survive
Facultative - correct answer ✔✔Parasites that may be free-living or may become parasitic when the
need arises
Host - correct answer ✔✔Every parasite needs a ________________
definitive host - correct answer ✔✔one in which the parasite attains sexual maturity
Definitive host - correct answer ✔✔Humans are considered what type of host?
Intermediate host - correct answer ✔✔harbors the asexual or larval stage of the parasite
Intermediate host - correct answer ✔✔Animals can be considered a what type of host?
Paratenic host - correct answer ✔✔one in which the parasite does not develop further to later stages
but remains alive and is able to infect another host
Reservoir host - correct answer ✔✔one in which the life cycle of the parasite may continue and become
additional sources of human infection
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