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protectuve shell of calcium carbonate silica protein or debris
Axopodia
works like a conveyor belt; extend through holes in test
Lobopida
pseudopodia of amoeba proteus
Giardia
causes backpackers dysentery lives in digestive tracts
Cyst
Bladder like sac formed in animal tissue
Reservoir Host
Animal that is infected by a parasites source for humans or other host.
Radiolarians
amoeboid protozoa
Foraminiferans
class Foraminifera, large, shelled ameboid protozoans belonging to the phylum Sarcodina
Intermediate Host
Undergoes but does nt rach sexual maturity
Definitve Host
Spends sexual stage of life cycle.
Trypanosoma Cruzi
protozoan parasite, is the causative agent of chagas disease
Trypanosoma brucei
protozoan with flagella (protist) species that causes African trypanosomiasis
Chagas
caused by trypanosoma cruzi
Kissing Bug
Intermediate host (vector) that transmit chagas diease
Sleeping Sickness
Diease from africa associated t.brucie
Teste Fly
Intermediate Host of sleeping sickness
Antigen
substance that caus eyour body to produce antibody
Antibody
used to identify and neutralized bacteria and virus
Symbiosis
intimate association between two species
Parasitism
one benefits one is harmed (host)
Mutualism
both organism benfit
Commensalism
One organism benfit but host is unaffected
Trichonympha
A flagellate from the gut of a termite diges wood
Cassiopea
jellyfish that gets much of its food from dinoflagellate symbionts
Dinoflagellate
produces food for jellyfish photsynthetic bottom of food chain
Photosynthesis
Carbon dixode and water combine to make sugar
Cellulose
test
Red Tide
caused when dinoflagellates bloom in response to excess nutrients in water
Entamoeba Hystolitica
is an anaerobic parasitic protozoan, part of the genus Entamoeba. Predominantly infecting humans and other primates
Amoeba proteus
is a large protozoan and belongs to the Phyllum
Sarcodina
Author
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174372
Card Set
Exam I
Description
Protista 2
Updated
2012-10-02T11:12:41Z
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