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What organs are infected by the types of flukes?
There are many types of flukes for different animals. In humans, we can be infected with a couple of types of liver flukes, a lung fluke, and blood flukes.
How many host does a life cycle of a liver fluke has?
2
What are American eel enemies?
Adults: American eagles. Juveniles: Striped Bass and other large fish.
How many people will develop hepatoma in the US?
In the United States, about five persons in every 200,000 will develop a hepatoma (70% to 75% of cases of primary liver cancers are HCC).
How do flukes move?
The term 'Fluke' can many different things but it is the common name of phylum Platyhelminthes or Liver fluke. This is a type of flat worm, a parasite that attaches itself to the liver of mammals (including humans) and feeds on blood.
How does liver fluke have a relationship with other animals?
It is a parasite that live in the bowels of many mammals and feeds off the blood of it's host.
How many people will develop hepatoma in Africa and Asia?
In Africa and Asia, over 40 persons in 200,000 will develop hepatoma (more than 90% of cases of primary liver are HCC).
How many bicycle kicks does Wayne Rooney have in his career?
5. all flukes or fails
How many goals did Chelsea score last premier league season?
103 flukes
Why is it so hard to kill most parasites?
Because it would deprive itself of its food-source. Parasites thrive by feeding off a 'host' - rather than catching their own food. If they kill off the host - they either have to find another host - or die !
Explain the relationship between the tremendous number of eggs produced by flukes and tapeworms and the complexity of their life cycles?
For one thing flukes and tapeworms organ system is mostly reproductive organs and they are monoecious (both male and female organs). Tapeworms produce eggs by setting off a posterior part of themselves called proglottids. each proglottids have an abundant amount of eggs that when they become independent from the tapeworm they have already become zygotes. Flukes don't have proglottids, but reproduce very frequently within themselves.
Name some parasites?
There are so many parasites which include ticks, tapeworm, liver fluke, rust, hookworm and so many more. These are organisms that gain nutrients at the expense of the host.
