Module 9 - Introduction to Helminths

  1. A parasite with general term meaning, worm.
    Helminths
  2. Nematodes or
    roundworms
  3. Cestodes or
    Tapeworm
  4. Trematodes or
    fluke
  5. What is the shape of the tapeworm?
    A cestode is segmented plane.

  6. What is the shape of the fluke?
    • A trematode is unsegmented plane.
  7. What is the shape of a nematode?
    A nematode or a roundworm is cylindrical.
  8. The only helminth that is present in the body cavity.
    Roundworm or nematode.
  9. The body covering of both cestode and trematode.
    Tegument.

    *Integument is a synonym of tegument.*
  10. The body covering of the nematode.
    cuticle
  11. The only helminth that does not have a digestive tract.
    The tapeworm or the cestodes.

    Tapeworms do not have a digestive tract. Instead, they absorb their nutrients from the gut contents of the host directly through their outside surface, tegument.
  12. Trematodes have _______ mode of digestive system.
    Incomplete digestive system. 

    The digestive system originates at the oral sucker and contains a pharynx, an esophagus, and a bifurcated intestine.

    There is no anus; thus, waste products must be regurgitated (spit off) following digestion.

  13. Digestive tube of _____ end in the cecum.
    flukes or trematodes
  14. Digestive tube of _____ end in the anus.
    roundworm or nematodes
  15. Sex classification of tapeworms?
    Hermaphroditic - having both male and female reproductive organs.
  16. Sex classification of fluke?
    Hermaphroditic,

    except schistosomes which are dioecious (having the male and female reproductive organs in separate individuals.)
  17. Most nematodes are characterized by being ______, as their sex.
    dioecious
  18. Attachment organ of tapeworms are ________.
    • Cestodes have sucker or bothridia, and rostellum with hooks.

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  19. Attachment organ of a fluke?
    Flukes have oral sucker and ventral sucker or acetabulum.

  20. Attachment organ of a roundworms.
    Nematodes have lips, teeth, filariform extremities, and dentary plates.

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Module 9 - Introduction to Helminths
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Nematodes Cestodes and Trematodes
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