Have you been studying parasitology? How much do you know about it? Ready for the ultimate parasitology trivia quiz? Parasitology deals with the study of parasites, their hosts, as well as the relationship among them. As a biological discipline, the means of parasitology is not decided by the organism or environment but by their way of life. These trivia questions will be fun and let you learn more about parasites. Let's go!
True
False
True
False
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False
The toxins they release
Their cellular components
Identifying the parasites themselves or their progeny
None of these
True
False
Penetrate skin
Emerge from snails that swim in water
Mature outside of the venous system
Lose their tails and change into a form that can enter the bloodstream after they burrow in the skin
Worms
Typically intracellular
Transmitted by oral ingestion, penetration of broken skin, or arthropod bite
Many live in the GI tract but can infect internal organs
Usually are able to complete life cycle within a single host
Disease is directly related to the number of parasites acquired
1
1,2
1,2,3
1,2,3,4
True
False
Taken up by biting mosquitos
Spread throughout the body and into the lungs
Left by biting mosquitos
No longer need to reproduce in red blood cells
Sporozoites
Plasmodium
Spores
Merozoites
Ingestion of eggs
Direct penetration of larvae through skin
Both
Neither
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False
True
False
True
False
True
False
True
False
True
False
True
False
True
False
Multiple cell eukaryotes
Require a large inocula
Disease results from replication of a large number of parasites
Can be intracellular or extracellular
Mononucleosis-like syndrome
Congenital infection
Infections in the brain or heart in immunocompromised
Gastrointestinal distress
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False
True
False
True
False
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