Visit the following links, associated with the television showMonsters Inside Me, and then complete theassignment below. Adopt the first three parasites from the ParasitePet Shop by putting the stages of their life cycle in order. Firstreview the Meet the Parasite link and then watch the video clips.This will help you understand, and correctly complete, the lifecycle of each parasite. You can also find these links on the Meetthe Microbes: Eukaryotes Lecture Main Page. Ctrl+click to followthe links below.
- Meet the Pork Tape Worm
Video Clips “Pork Tape Worm” &“Pork Tape Worm In Brain”
- Disease / Medical Condition: porktapeworm
- How do humans get contract disease (i.e. how is ittransmitted)? undercooked pork that contains thecysts
- Signs and symptoms of disease: you can have seizurescoma hallucinations or possibly even death
- Describe the course of the disease: they get infectedin the human gut the cysts hatch into adult tapeworms where theycan grow up to several metres long the adult worms lay eggs thatare passed in human feces if a pig then eats the feces the eggsgrow into cysts in its muscle tissue and the life cyclerepeats
- How can this infection be prevented in humans?
- Type of parasite (bacteria, protozoan, fungus, helminth,insect, virus):
- Scientific name of parasite (properly formatted):
- How does this parasite evade the host’s immune system?
- List the order in which you placed the life cycle circles inthe Adopt a Pet Parasite game (There is a sentence associated witheach of the 4 circles.):
