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| association between two organisms of different species either temporary or permanent. |
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| each member of symbiosis. |
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| Predator-prey relationship |
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| an extremely short-term relationship where one symbiont benefits at the expense of the other. |
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| the smaller member of the symbiotic relationship is mechanically carried by the larger one. |
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| an association where both organisms benefit from each other. |
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| an association where one symbiont benefits and the other is neither benefited or harmed. |
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| an association between a parasite and a host that may cause harm. |
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| the study of parasitic relationships. |
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| parasites are present on or within the host and does produce obvious injury or harm. |
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| parasites that lives ON the body of the host. |
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| parasites that lives INSIDE the body of the host. |
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| condition caused by ectoparasites. |
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| condition caused by endoparasites. |
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| chemical compounds used to treat specific internal and external parasites. |
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| compounds developed to kill roundworms, tapeworms, flukes, and thorny-headed worms. |
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| compounds developed to kill mites and ticks. |
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| compounds developed to kill insects. |
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| compounds developed to kill protozoan organisms. |
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| Erratic / Aberrant parasites |
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| A parasite that occasionally wanders from its usual site of infection into an organ or location it does not normally live. |
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| A parasite that can occur in a host it does not usually live. |
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| organisms that are "free-living" or nonparasitic that can become parasitic in certain hosts. |
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| a parasite that must lead a parasitic existence. |
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| a parasite that makes frequent short visits to its host to obtain nourishment. |
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| creatures or objects that may be mistaken for a parasite. |
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| the development of a parasite through its life stages. |
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| a host that harbors the adult, sexual, or mature stages of the parasite. |
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| a host that harbors the larval, juvenile, immature, or asexual stages of the parasite. |
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| where a parasite does not change, but remains arrest. |
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| Transport / Paratenic host |
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| a host that carries an encyst parasite. |
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| a vertebrate host where a parasite or disease occurs in nature. |
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| Homoxenous / Monoxenous parasite |
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| a parasite that will infect on only one type of host. |
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| a parasite that has a narrow host range. |
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| a parasite that has a broad range of hosts. |
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| any disease or parasite that is transmittable between animals and humans. |
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| kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, and species. |
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| a name for a living organism in different regions of the world. |
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| a name for a living organism that is composed of two Latin words. |
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| name that indicates the group an animal or plant belongs to. |
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| indicates the type of animal itself. |
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| ectoparasites of fish, amphibians, and reptiles. |
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| parasites that infect both small and large animals. |
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| flat ribbon-like worms found in the gastrointestinal tract of their host. |
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| similarly resemble true tapeworms and also found in the gastrointestinal tract of their host. |
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| elongated, unsegmented, cylindric worms. |
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| elongated, unsegmented, cylindric worm with spiny proboscis on their anterior ends. |
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| blood-feeding ectoparasites of both wild and domesticated animals. |
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| largest animal phylum including; pentastomes, crustaceans, centipedes, millipedes, insects, mites, ticks, scorpions, and spiders. |
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