Phoresis - ✔✔ The term for "traveling together"
Commensalism - ✔✔ A relationship between two organisms in which one organism benefits and
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Mutualism - ✔✔ A relationship between two species in which both species benefit
Parasitism - ✔✔ A relationship between two organisms of different species where one benefits and the other is harmed
Ectoparasites - ✔✔ Parasites that feed on external surface of host.
Endosymbionts - ✔✔ any organism that lives within the cells of another organism
Schizogony (merogony) - ✔✔ Asexual multiplication of Apicomplexa; multiple intracellular nuclear divisions precede cytoplasmic division.
Sporogony - ✔✔ Sexual reproduction of Apicomplexa. Production of spores and sporozoites.
Gametogony - ✔✔ the phase of the development cycle of the malarial and coccidial parasite in the human in which male and female gametocytes are formed
Conjugation - ✔✔ process in which paramecia and some prokaryotes exchange genetic information
Syngamy - ✔✔ the fusion of two cells, or of their nuclei, in reproduction.
Encystment - ✔✔ The ability to form cysts, or dormant forms surrounded by a resistant outer covering. Important for parasitic forms in order to survive while moving between hosts.
Excystment - ✔✔ escape from cyst to metabolically active, motile form (trophozoite)
African Sleeping Sickness - ✔✔ the disease in humans caused by African Trypanosomes
Nagana - ✔✔ the disease in cattle/other animals caused by African Trypanosomes
Trypanosoma brucei gambiense - ✔✔ the trypanosome associated with humans is chronic (sleeping-sickness stage with CNS invaded) and found in West Africa
Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense - ✔✔ the trypanosome associated with humans and wild ruminants, is acute (rapid onset, decline, death) and found in East Africa
Trypanosoma brucei brucei - ✔✔ the trypanosome associated with all domestic and wild mammals in Africa
Trypanosoma trypomastigote - ✔✔ what is the species and developmental stage?
Trypanosoma amastigote - ✔✔ what is the species and developmental stage?
Trypanosoma epimastigote - ✔✔ what is the species and developmental stage?
kinetoplast - ✔✔ what is this structure?
undulating membrane - ✔✔ what is the structure that runs from the posterior to the anterior end of this organism?
Tse-Tse Fly - ✔✔ vector for African Trypanosoma
metacyclic trypomastigote - ✔✔ the infective stage of trypanosoma that is passed by the vector into the host bloodstream
bloodstream trypomastigote - ✔✔ once a trypanosoma enters the bloodstream from the vector the life stage becomes
chancre - ✔✔ red, round, superficial ulcer with a yellowish serous discharge as a result of trypanosoma infection
glycoprotein surface coat - ✔✔ trypanosomes have ______________ on the outside as a means of molecular mimickry
binary fission - ✔✔ trypanosomes multiply in the fly gut by
epimastigotes - ✔✔ when trypanosomes leave the midgut of the fly they become ______ and then go to salivary glands to multiply again
Trypansosoma cruzi - ✔✔ the trypanosomas found in the Americas
Trypanosoma cruzi - ✔✔ the trypanosoma that infects humans, dogs, cats, and rodents and can be acute or chronic [Show Less]