Take Home Quiz (Parasitology)

I. Matching Type

Column A

1. Amoebic dysentery
2. Chagas disease
3. tape worm
4. hookworm
5. African sleeping sickness
6. filariasis
7. malaria
8. toxoplasmosis
9. trichinosis
10. whipworm

Column B

A. Plasmodium vivax
B. Enterobius vermicularis
C. Onchocerca vovulus
D. Toxoplasma gondii
E. Trichuris trichiura
F. Entamoeba histolytica
G. Necator americanus
H. Trypanosoma brucei
I. Wuchereria bancrofti
J. Trypanosoma cruzi
K. Taenia saginata
L. Naegleria fowleri
M. Trichinella spiralis

II. Concept Questions

1. What are the primary functions of the cyst and trophozoite in the life cycle?
2. In what ways are helminthes different from other parasites?
3. Why are there so many parasitic worm infections worldwide?
4. Give at least 10 examples of Neglected Tropical Diseases according to the DOH.

III. Critical Thinking Questions

1. Explain why only female mosquitoes are involved in malaria? How about
dengue?
2. How can you eradicate tapeworms?

Use the answer sheet below

Name: CABILES, Jessica Feliz S.___
DE JOYA, Montessa Yllana B.
MENDOZA, Razzel Nizza ____

I. Matching Type (20 pts)

Items Answer Protozoan / Items Answer Protozoan /

Helminthic Helminthic
1 F. Protozoan 6 I. and C. Helminthic
2 J. Protozoan 7 A. Protozoan
3 K. Helminthic 8 D. Protozoan?
4 G. Helminthic 9 M. Helminthics
5 H. Protozoan 10 E. Helminthics

II. Concept Questions (20 pts)

1. Cyst is the resting stage of the parasite, but parasites do not actually rest, they do still
have progress for themselves preparing for the trophozoite stage. In the cyst stage,
parasites find hosts and embed into a suitable place in the host’s body where they could
grow for them to survive. In the trophozoite stage which is the feeding stage, the parasites
compensating with the nutrients in the host’s body while on the host’s organ or target in
order to multiply/reproduce which aids the parasites to spread.

2. ? Helmints are different from the other parasites in a way that they free-living. Fleas
for examples are parasites that live of the warm-blooded animals underneath their fur and
incapable of the internal environment of the warm-blooded animals. Unlike tapeworms,
wherein they live internally of the host’s body, like in the intestinal walls of human, and
externally after human body eliminated it through feces. Moreover, helminths are
different being a heterogeneous group of parasitic worms that include such diverse forms
as the roundworms (nematodes), flukes (trematodes), tapeworms (cestodes), thorny-
headed worms (acanthocephalans), and tongue worms (linguatulids).

3. The reason is because parasites can survive in simple and complex life cycles they
undergo. Since parasites have life cycles that involve intermediate organisms, or vectors,
carriers of disease-causing microorganisms easily transmits the disease from one host to
another. Moreover, aside from animals and humans, parasites can infect even the plants
around us. They secrete chemicals that induce plant cells around the parasite to rapidly
divide and produce large growths known as galls. Galls formed by the root knot
nematode can cause serious physical damage to the roots of important crops including
tomatoes and potatoes.

4.

III. Critical Thinking Questions (10 pts)

1. The reason is basically because the female mosquitoes have hypodermic mouthparts
which enable them to pierce the skin and suck the blood of mammals, birds, reptiles, and
other arthropods unlike the males which have reduced mouthparts and feed instead on
nectar and water. Moreover, as with all mosquitoes, adult females must feast on blood
before laying eggs for propagating.

2. Several vermifuges, poisonous worm-killing substances, are effective in proper

dosages in treating tapeworm infestation. But unless the scolex is not dislodged, the
worm is not eradicated. Scolex is the term for the head of the tapeworms equipped with a
crown of hooklets for attachment to the intestinal lining of its host. Since scolex is the
part attached, it must be detached in order to be flushed out of the host’s body completely
together with the part of the tapeworm called proglottids which detaches to pass out with
the feces of the host to generate a new scolex when ingested by another host since
tapeworm eggs are contained in it.