Types of Parasites Quiz

What type of parasite cannot exist without a host?

Which host harbors the adult parasite and where the parasite replicates sexually?

In which type of host does the larval or asexual stages of a parasite alternate with the definitive host?

Which type of parasite attacks an unusual host?

What type of host can harbor a pathogen indefinitely with no ill effects?

Which type of parasite survives in a host but does not develop further?

What term describes an association in which both host and parasite are so dependent upon each other that one cannot live without the help of the other?

In which classification level is a group of closely related species placed?

What is the term for a disease communicable from animals to humans under natural conditions?

What do you call an agent, usually an insect that transmits infection from one human host to another?

What is the term for an association in which only the parasite may benefit without detectable damage to the host?

What does compromised host refer to?

What term describes an association in which one partner (the parasite) harms or lives at the expense of the other (host)?

What is the term for a group of closely related species?

What term describes a population, the members of which have essentially the same genetic characters and are capable of continued reproduction of their kind?

What is the term for an infection acquired by man under natural conditions?