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Parasites
I. FUNGI (Mycology)
Diverse group of heterotrophs.
CHARACTERISTICS OF FUNGI
1. Yeasts
Reproduce asexually.
Examples:
FUNGAL DISEASES
Mycosis: Any fungal disease. Tend to be chronic because
fungi grow slowly.
Mycoses are classified into the following categories:
I. Systemic mycoses: Fungal infections deep within the
body. Can affect a number if tissues and organs.
Examples:
Examples:
Cutaneous Mycosis
Cutaneous Mycosis
Examples:
Beneficial fungi:
II. ALGAE
II. ALGAE
DIVISIONS OF ALGAE
III. LICHENS
Amoeboid stage
Produce spores like fungi
V. PROTOZOA
V. PROTOZOA (Continued)
Nutrition
Most are heterotrophic aerobes. Intestinal protozoa can
grow anaerobically.
Some ingest whole algae, yeast, bacteria, or smaller
protozoans. Others live on dead and decaying matter.
Parasitic protozoa break down and absorb nutrients from
their hosts.
Some transport food across the membrane.
Others have a protective covering (pellicle) and required
specialized structures to take in food.
Characteristics
Eukaryotic, multicellular animals that usually have
digestive, circulatory, nervous, excretory, and
reproductive systems.
Worms with bilateral symmetry, head and tail, and tissue
differentiation (endoderm, mesoderm, and ectoderm).
Parasitic helminths spend most or all of their lives in host
and usually have the following specializations:
I. Platyhelminths (Flatworms)
Flattened from front to back.
Include:
1. Trematodes or Flukes
Leaf shaped bodies
Ventral and oral suckers for attachment and sucking
fluids from host.
Some can absorb nutrients through their cuticle.
Named for host tissues in which adult lives.
Free-Living Flatworm
Planaria
Source: http://www.biosci.ohio-state.edu/~parasite/a-h.html
I. Platyhelminths (Flatworms)
2. Cestodes or Tapeworms
Long flat bodies
Intestinal parasites
Lack a digestive system, absorb food through cuticle.
Body Organization:
Head or scolex has suckers for attachment.
Body is made up of segments called proglottids.
I. Platyhelminths (Flatworms)
Cestodes or Tapeworms (Continued)
Parasitic human tapeworms:
Males are smaller than females and have one or two spicules on
posterior end.
Roundworm
Earthworm
Infectious larvae
Source: http://www.biosci.ohio-state.edu/~parasite/a-h.html
Source: http://www.biosci.ohio-state.edu/~parasite/a-h.html
Source: http://www.biosci.ohio-state.edu/~parasite/a-h.html