We have been learning about the human body and how it is organized and how certain structures perform certain functions within the body. For this week's BLOG, I would like for you to pick one of the following organisms and explain why it is considered to have a symbiotic relationship with other organisms. Respond to A and B for 10 points.
Use this link to investigate Bedbugs http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bedbug
Use this link to investigate Tapeworms http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cestoda
Use this link to investigate Deer Ticks http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deer_tick
A) The Problem: (5 points)
Why is this organism considered a parasite and what health related issues does this organism cause?
B) Description of organism: (5 points)
- Describe the physical characteristics of the organism
- its feeding habits/food source
- how it reproduces
- stages of development
- Treatment for exterminating organism
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It is considered a parasite because it feeds on people's blood to stay alive and it also is found in beds.
The affects are skin rashes, psychological effects and allergic symptoms.
Adult bedbugs are reddish-brown, flattened, oval, and wingless. Bedbugs have microscopic hairs that give them a banded appearance. Adults grow to 4–5 mm in length and 1.5–3 mm wide. Newly hatched nymphs are seethrough and become browner as they shed and reach adulthood.
Bedbugs are bloodsucking insects. Most species feed on humans only when other prey are unavailable. Bedbugs are attracted to their hosts primarily by carbon dioxide, secondarily by warmth, and also by certain chemicals.
A bedbug pierces the skin of its host with two hollow feeding tubes. With one tube it injects its saliva, which contains anticoagulants and anesthetics, while with the other it withdraws the blood of its host. After feeding for about five minutes, the bug returns to its hiding place.
All bedbugs mate by traumatic insemination. Because the female has no genital opening, the male pierces her abdomen with his hypodermic genitalia and ejaculates into the body cavity. Male bedbugs sometimes attempt to mate with other males and pierce the latter in the abdomen
Bedbugs have six life stages (5 immature and an adult stage). They will shed their skins through a molting process throughout multiple stages of their lives. The discarded outer-shells look like clear, empty exoskeletons of the bugs themselves. Bedbugs must molt six times before becoming fertile adults.
To get rid of them you have to call an exterminater and he will get rid of the bedbugs in a matter of hours.
A) The bedbug is considered a parasite because it lives near or on humans/warm-blooded animals and get nutrients from them. Some health effects are that you could get skin rashes, psychological effects and allergic symptoms. This parasite sucks and drinks your blood.
B) Bedbugs are a brownish color and have microscopic hairs. Their shape is a flattened oval look with no wings. They can live in various levels of temperatures. The bedbug lives on blood from mostly humans by piercing into the skin. The male has to pierce the latter into the abdomen to the female and most of the eggs are fertile. There are six life stages of the bedbug and their skin is shed. Ways to get rid of bedbugs is to vacuum them up, heat treating, or wrapping the mattres in plastic.
A)The tape worm is a parasite because it goes inside a organism and takes what it needs.
B)The health risks are constipation ,seizures, and muscle weakness.
A.) The bedbug is considered a parasite because it lives on or near humans and warm-blooded animals and sucks/drinks their blood. There are many health effects that come with bedbugs. Some of these are that you could get skin rashes, psychological effects and allergic symptoms. The way the bedbug stays alive is by sucking/drinking your blood.
B.) Bedbugs are a brownish color and have microscopic hairs. They have a flatened oval shape to them. They can live in various levels of temperatures. The bedbug lives on blood from mostly humans by piercing into the skin and drinking the blood. They reproduce by the male pericing the latter into the abdomen to the female and most of the eggs will become fertile. Bedbugs shed their skin and have six different life stages to them. There are many ways to get rid of bedbugs such as to vacuum them up, heat treating, or wrapping the mattres in plastic. The easiet and most sure way to get rid of the bedbugs is to call an exterminator.
Jonathon Deifel Core D
Molly OHearn Core: D
A) The bedbug is a parasite because lives on humans and animals and it sucks their blood. From getting bed bugs you can get rashes,psychological effetcs and allergic symptoms.
B) Bedbugs are brownish colored and have microscopic hairs.They live in various levels of temperature. Bedbugs live on blood from mostly humans.hey reproduce by the male pericing the latter into the abdomen to the female and most of the eggs will become fertile.
a.) Bedbugs are considered a parasite because they feed on human blood. Bedbugs can cause skin rashes, psychological effects, and allergic symptoms.
b.)Bedbugs are reddish-brown,
flattend, oval and wingless. Bedbugs eat human blood.and They reproduce by the male pericing the latter into the abdomen to the female and most of the eggs will become fertile. Bedbugs shed their skin and have six different life stages to them. There are many ways to get rid of bedbugs such as to vacuum them up, heat treating, or wrapping the mattres in plastic. The easiet and most sure way to get rid of the bedbugs is to call an exterminator.
Nick Schinkal Core D
This is considered a parasite because the bugs feeds on peoples blood to survive.
The affects to these bug bites are skin rashes, allergic reactions.
Adult bedbugs are reddish-brown, flattened, oval, and wingless. Bedbugs have microscopic hairs that give them a banded appearance. Adults grow to 4–5 mm in length and 1.5–3 mm wide. Newly hatched nymphs shed and later become adults.
Bedbugs are insects that suck blood to survive. Most of all bed bugs feed on humans only when other prey are unavailable. Bedbugs are attracted to carbon dioxide and warmth.
A bedbug pierces the skin of its host with two hollow feeding tubes. With one tube it injects its saliva, which contains anticoagulants and anesthetics, while with the other it withdraws the blood of its host. After feeding for about five minutes, the bug returns to its hiding place.
All bedbugs mate by traumatic insemination. Because the female has no genital opening, the male pierces her abdomen with his hypodermic genitalia and ejaculates into the body cavity. Male bedbugs sometimes attempt to mate with other males and pierce the latter in the abdomen
Bedbugs have six life stages (5 immature and an adult stage). They will shed their skins through a molting process throughout multiple stages of their lives. The discarded outer-shells look like clear, empty exoskeletons of the bugs themselves. Bedbugs must molt six times before becoming fertile adults.
To get rid of them you have to call an exterminater and he will get rid of the bedbugs in a matter of hours.
A.) this organism is considered a parasite because it is a vector for several diseases of animals and humans.
Health related issues include Lyme disease, babesiosis, anaplasmosis, etc.
B.) the physical characteristics of the organism The abdomen is of a light grayish-blue color, where the tick itself is chiefly black.
Its feeding habits/food source are as the white-tailed deer. That is why it's commonly know as the deer tick.
The deer tick reproduces by latching onto a host and drinking its blood for four to five days. After it is engorged, the tick drops off and overwinters in the leaf litter of the forest floor. The following spring, the female lays several hundred to a few thousand eggs in clusters
Treatment for exterminating organism would be to use a tick repellent spray.
A. Bedbugs are considered parasites because they feed off of living organisms. The health issues a bedbug can cause are skin rashes, psychological effects, and allergic symptoms. Those are just a few of the many things bedbugs can do. If a bedbug gets on a living organism it sucks the organisms' blood.
B. Adult bedbugs are reddish-brown, flattened, oval, and wingless. Bedbugs have microscopic hairs that give them a branded appearance.
Bedbugs are attracted to hosts primarily from carbon dioxide, second by warmth, and also from certain chemicals.
Bedbugs will only feed on humans when no other food source is available. Bedbugs reproduce by the male slicing open the female's abdomen and then putting the eggs in the opening.
Natural predators to bedbugs are the masked hunter, cockroaches, ants, spiders, mites, and centipedes. There are also dogs trained to find bedbugs and professional exterminators.
A) A tapeworm is considered a parasite because it eats through an organism and takes what it needs. Health related issues are muscle weakness, seizures, nausea, and constipation.
B) Tapeworms are long and white. They are so thin that they relate to a piece of tape.The worm's scolex (head) attaches to the intestine of the definitive host. In some species, the scolex is dominated by bothria (tentacles), which are sometimes called "sucking grooves", and function like suction cups. Other species have hooks and suckers.
Tapeworms feed on fat, and some people eat them to lose weight.
Tapeworms have both male and female reproductive systems. The reproductive system includes one or many testes, cirrus, vas deferens and seminal vesicle as male organs, and a single lobed or unlobed ovary with the connecting oviduct and uterus as female organs. There is an opening for both male and female reproductive systems, known as genital pore, which is at the surface opening of the atrium. Reproduction is very rare with tapeworms.
Tapeworms start out as a cysticercosis. They soon grow into adults.
Most people with tapeworms don't recieve treatment, because tapeworms remove themselves by coming through a hole in the body, or eating their way through.
A.) I chose bedbugs, and they are considered a parasite because it lives on or near humans and warm-blooded animals. Health related issues are that they cause skin rashes, psychological effects and allergic symptoms.
B.) The physical characteristics of bedbugs are that they are reddish-brown, flattened, oval, and wingless. They have microscopic hairs that give them a banded appearance and adults grow to 4–5 mm in length and 1.5–3 mm wide. The bedbugs feeding habits is blood, they are bloodsucking insects. Most species feed on humans only when other prey are unavailable. The female bedbugs have no genital opening so the male pierces a hole in her abdomen. The treatment for killing bedbugs is using a vacuum cleaner, heat treatment, or just calling the exterminator.
Allison Burst
Core D
BLOG Week 8
Tapeworms
A. A tape worm is considered a parasite because it eats through an organism (host) sop it can get what it needs. The health issue related to this parasit is seizures, muscle weekness, nausea, and constipation. It doesn't cause too many health problems. It is eaten by humans to help lose weight because it eats fat.
B. Tapeworms are long and a white-ish color.The taoeworms have hooks and suckers to attach to the fat that they eat. Each worm has a male and female reproductive system. Tape worms hardly ever fertilize themselfs but by others passing by. The cirrus of one induvidual connects to the other through the genital pore thus exchanging their spermatozoa.The juvienile tape worm grows into a Taenia saginata or adult. People do not recive treatment fot the tapeworm becasue it either eats its way out of the skin or exits through a whole in the body.
Bed bugs
A( A bed bug is consider a parasite because it feeds off a humans blood the human is the host. Bed bugs can cause skin conditions like allergic reactions from bites and infections like impetigo.
B( bed bugs are small, flat reddish brown, wingless and range from one to seven mm in length. they feed on the blood of sleeping humans and animals. they can several months without blood meal. female bed bugs can lay up to five eggs a day and 500 in a life time. ways to exterminate remove clutter, apply heat treatment, vacuuming, seal cracks and crevices where bed bugs hide, and use none-chemical and chemical pesticides
A) They are considered a parasite because they feed on the blood of warm blooded animels.
B) the tape worm can reproudece because it may have male and female reproduceing systens in it.
the way you can get rid of a tape worm is taking a medicen called Praziquantel generically.
Bedbugs
A.)It is considered a parasite because it lives off another organism. The health issues are skin rashes, psychological effects and allergic systems.
B.)Adult bedbugs are reddish-brown, flattened, oval, and wingless. Bedbugs have microscopic hairs and grow to be 4-5mm in length and 1.5-3mm wide. A bedbug’s food source is a human by piercing the human with two tubes. It reproduces by traumatic insemination.
Katelyn Dole
Core D
A)That bedbug is considered a parasite is because it needs a host to live. The bedbug causes skin rashes and allergic reactions.
B) The bedbugs are white and since they drink your blood they have red insides and also they're brown too. The bedbug hides in your furniture and when you sit or lay down on it they come and suck your blood.Bedbugs have six life stages (5 immature and an adult stage). If your furniture has dark blackish spots get rid of it cause you probably have bedbugs.
A: Bedbugs are considered a parasite because they feed to human blood to survive. You can get skin rashes, psychological effects and allergic symptoms from the bugs.
B: Adult bed bugs are reddish-brown flat bugs with an oval shape and have no wings. They are about 4–5 mm in length and 1.5–3 mm wide. Bed buges feed on human blood. The male has to pierce the latter into the abdomen to the female and most of the eggs are fertile. Bedbugs have six life stages (5 immature and an adult stage). They will shed their skins through a molting process throughout multiple stages of their lives. The discarded outer-shells look like clear, empty exoskeletons of the bugs themselves. Bedbugs must molt six times before becoming fertile adults. To get rid of them you have to call an exterminater and he will get rid of the bed bugs in a few hours.
Lauren Brown core: d
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