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12) Choose the best answer.

If you were to take pond scum and look at it under a microscope, you would most likely see ________________.

paramecium

mosquitoes

litter

larvae

13) Choose the best answer.

What type of protozoans are parasites?

zooflagellates

sarcodines

ciliates

sporozoans

14) Choose the best answer.

______ are organisms that live on or in another organism (the host) and cause harm to that organism.

Vacuoles

Diatoms

Parasites

Vectors

15) Choose the best answer.

An organism that can carry a parasite, and is responsible for infecting other organisms (host) with that parasite is called a _____________.

vector

parasite

cell

paramecium

16) Choose True or False.

One good example of a vector is mosquitos.


False

True

17) Choose the best answer.

One example of a sporozoan is __________________, which causes malaria.

plasmodium

cilium

bacterium

paramecium

18) Choose the best answer.

Why is controlling the vector important for controlling the disease?

can be a means of controlling the transmission of blood

can be a means of defending the transmission of parasites

can be a means of controlling the transmission of parasites

can be a means of producing the transmission of parasites

Answer 1

12) paramecium

13) sporozoans

14) Parasites

15) vector

16) True

17) plasmodium

18) can be a means of controlling the transmission of parasites