Nematodes Quiz 3 (30 MCQs)

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1. These organisms are mollusks EXCEPT
2. Enterobious vermicularis is the most common endodermic parasite in the U.S. How do many children get this parasite?
3. Segmented worms are known as
4. The longitudinal muscles pull against what internal structure?
5. A stiff structure resembling a hair or a bristle, especially in an invertebrate
6. Which of the following phyla was the first to exhibit body segmentation?
7. If you are infected with Ascaris you may have
8. Earthworms breath with their .....
9. Eggs are passed in feces then ingestion of infective eggs is the root cause; more commonly affects children causing symptoms such as cough, fever, wheezing.
10. What is cephalization?
11. The definitive host will become infected by Ascaris through
12. This parasite is found in Central and W. Africa, causes calamari swelling, and high eosinophilia.
13. The best way to prevent getting infected with Ascaris is to
14. The small segments behind a scolex that reproduce quickly, making a tapeworm longer and longer are called .....
15. They are thin, flat acoelomate animals that can be freely living or parasitic.
16. Earthworms don't have teeth to grind their food so they use another organ to do so. It is called a .....
17. Used for movement in nematodes
18. Platyhelminthes worms are
19. Nematodes have a fast whip like movement due to special muscles pulling on the psuedocoelom. What direction do these muscles move?
20. The nematodes are called
21. What species is found living in the large intestine?
22. Outermost layer of living tissue on nematodes that protects their internal organs from water loss and the outside environment.
23. Which one of the following does NOT infest humans?
24. Which of the following statements is TRUE for annelids and nematodes?
25. Collection of nerve cells located at the anterior end of a worm
26. Loeffler's syndrome
27. Nematodes are also known as .....
28. Roundworms have excretory cells called:
29. Flatworms are unsegmented, bilaterial worms that lack a coelom. Animals that lack a coelom are called .....
30. : Which of the following does not accurately describe Lymphatic filariasis?