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Toxoplasma Gondi, a single-celled parasite, causes a disease called toxoplasmosis. More than 60 million people in the United States may be infected with the toxoplasma parasite.
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What are two examples of living things that are eukaryotic?
1. Komodo dragon (Varanus komodoensis) 2. Toxoplasma Gondii
What is toxoplasmosis?
Toxoplasmosis is a disease caused by the parasite Toxoplasma gondii, which is endemic in cats. It is usually caught in the process of cleaning litter boxes. While it can have an effect on adult humans, the effects on unborn children can be much greater, which is why doctors recommend that pregnant women not handle cat litter. The organism that causes the disease is of interest to science because it affects the brains of rats and mice in ways that seem designed to increase the spread of the disease.
What is CMV AB IGM?
what is the toxoplasma ab igg
What are the 5 groups of Living Things?
What are the five large groups that living things can be classified into? In: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/FAQ/2608, http://wiki.answers.com/Q/FAQ/2403[What_are_the_five_large_groups_that_living_things_can_be_classified_into]More correctly than saying all living things, you could say all eukaryotes (see diagram below). This is called the five-kingdom system of classification. I'm in the Taxonomicon at the moment and I copied this from there. I've used it for assignments before and it is very detailed. I love it.www.taxonomy.nl - the Taxonomicon.edit: The five kingdom system is not often used anymore in academia. This is because the monera kingdom has been eliminated and put into two domains (above the kingdom level) Bacteria and Archaea. I have edited the information below to show this change.Biota (all living things) (viruses are NOT living)- domain Bacteria- domain Archaea- domain Eukarya - for expansion see belowEukarya- Kingdom Animalia- Kingdom Plantae- Kingdom Protista- Kingdom Fungi-Basically:-Animal Kingdom -- this group is a very large group. It consists of both invertebrates and vertebrates. The groups within the invertebrates include: echinodermata (sea stars, sea urchins, sea cucumbers), arthropods (insects, arachnids, and crustaceans), nematodes (roundworms) molluscs (squid, snails, clams and other bivalves with mantles), annelida (segmented worms(earth worms, leeches, etc), nemartea (ribbon worms), platyhelminthes (flat worms) Rotifera (radial symmetrical), Acoleomorpha, Cnidaria (jelly fish, corals, sea anemones, hydras) and finally porifera (sponges, and other filter feeders). The vertebrates include Agnatha (jawless fishes such as lampreys), Condrichythyes (cartilagenous fish such as sharks), Osteichythes (ones like halibut), Amphibia (amphibians (toads for example), Repitilia (snakes, alligators for example), Aves (birds), and mammals (marsupials, rodents, felines, canines, etc)-Plant Kingdom includes a fairly big group of plants as well. Some of the plants or groups of plants that are within this group are bryophytes (mosses and lichens), liverwort, gymnosperms (conifers, decidious and other trees), angiosperms (flowering plants), Pteridophyta (ferns). These are just a few of the examples in this category. It also includes all of the algae that have pigments such as chlorophyll.-Protist Kingdom include other eukaryotic groups. These ones are examples such as plant like algaes (that don't carry the pigment chlorophyll), these may include brown and red algae, and animal like algaes and there are also ones that are mobile such as paramecium and amoeba, and then spores for example. Flagellates with long flagella e.g., Euglena Amoeboids with transient pseudopodia e.g., Amoeba Ciliates with multiple, short cilia e.g., Paramecium Sporozoa non-mobile parasites; some can form spores e.g., Toxoplasma-Fungi Kingdom this kingdom is known for decomposers. The popular group within fungi are mushrooms and other abiotic proerties within the environment that will work on the nitrogenous cycle.First answer by User:LauraFrog. Last edit by User:Cat3120. Contributor http://wiki.answers.com/help/trust_points
What are living things organized into?
At their simplest, broadest level, living organisms are classified into domains according to whether their cells are nucleated or non-nucleated and according to the structure of their cells' membranes. The domains are Eukarya (nucleated organisms) and two prokaryotic domains differentiated by cell membrane detail (among other things): Archaea and Bacteria.Domains are further divided into kingdoms. Eukarya, for example, is divided into the plant kingdom, animal kingdom, fungal kingdom and protist kingdom. The protists should actually be classified as many kingdoms due to their diversity. Plants, animals and fungi are differentiated on cell wall structure and cell structure. Plants have cellulose cell walls, fungi have chitinous cell walls and animals lack cell walls. Plants contain chloroplasts, which animals and fungi lack. Animals contain centrioles which plants and fungi mostly lack. Animals and plants are all multicellular whereas some fungi are unicellular (such as Saccharomyces).Kingdoms are divided into phyla. There are 12 phyla of plants and just over 30 phyla of animals and a few fungal phyla. The singular of phyla is phylum by the way. Through their phyla, plants show increasing sporophyte dominance and decreasing gametophyte dominance. Primitive plants such as bryophytes are gametophyte dominant whereas all other plants are sporophyte dominant, but increasingly so thoughout the evolution of plants, from really dominant bryophyte gametophytes to the really diminutive and shrunken gametophytes of angiosperms. Some of the phyla of plants are: Hepatophyta, Bryophyta/Musci, Anthocerotophyta, Pteridophyta, Equisetophyta, Ginkgophyta, Pinophyta, Cycadophyta, Gnetophyta, Anthophyta.Note that "kingdom" and "phylum" are major subdivisions (taxa): there are intermediates. In the animal kingdom, there is a distinction between Radiata and Bilateria which are "unranked" taxa, not kingdoms and not phyla but between the two (and not subkingdoms or superphyla either in case you wonder). Radiata contains radially symmetrical animals such as the phyla Cnidaria and Ctenophora (jellyfish + corals and comb jellies respectively). Bilateria contains the bilaterally symmetrical animals which may be further classified as coelomate, acoelomate or pseudocoelomate according to the advancedness of their body cavities. Some bilaterian phyla include Platyhelminthes, Mollusca, Annelida, Arthropoda, Nemertea, Nematoda, Chaetognatha, Sipuncula, Echinodermata, Chordata, Hemichordata and Xenoturbellida.You see the pattern by now. Division after division in the taxonomic hierarchy: Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species. Linnaeus (the "father" of classification) no doubt grouped organisms solely on morphology. Now, we use molecular data and that can refute or confirm morphological hypotheses of classification. Linnaeus grouped on "likeness"/similarity, no doubt oblivious to evolutionary relationship or genetic relationship (Darwin published Origin about a century after Linnaeus did anything useful) and, in those days, species were declared immutable creations. No-one knew of Mendel, no-one knew of Darwin, no-one knew of the concept of monophyly. But, these days, classification must reflect evolutionary relations where groups are monophyletic (a monophyly comprises a common ancestor and all its descendents). Mammals are a monophyly. All platypuses, marsupials and placental mammals all share a common ancestor. Reptiles are techincally not a monophyly. The common ancestor of all reptiles is also the common ancestor of all birds. If one excludes "bird" when one talks of reptiles, trying to say that birds are not reptiles, then "Reptilia" is not a monophyly.Classification is of course a war and a half. There are those who are disposed to "lumping" and those inclined to "splitting". For example, someone who says a Giant Panda is a "Bear" "lumps" this species in the Family Ursidae. Someone who declares a Giant Panda is too distinct to be an ursid "splits" the Giant Panda into a separate family, Ailuridae. Cats, including lynxes, used to almost all be in the genus Felis. Now, they have been split into many genera. In fact, caracals and lynxes (both lynxes by the common tongue) are split into two separate genera themselves. The same story about cats is similar to the story about albatrosses and sunbirds. Goodness, the battle does go on.
When was Toxoplasma gondii created?
Toxoplasma gondii was created in 1908.
What does toxoplasma gondii eat?
little boys named gavin
How many women of child-bearing age carry the parasite Toxoplasma gondii that causes toxoplasmosis?
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimate that 25-45% of women of childbearing age carry the parasite Toxoplasma gondii that causes toxoplasmosis.
What are two examples of living things that are eukaryotic?
1. Komodo dragon (Varanus komodoensis) 2. Toxoplasma Gondii
What is toxoplasma Ab IgM?
Toxoplasma is commonly known as Toxoplasma gondii. It is obligate intercellular parasite that can infect the widest range of hosts known to science. Ab is an abbreviation for "antibody" of which IgM is one. The full name for IgM is Immunoglobulin M. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immunoglobulin_M
What group of protist causes malaria and toxoplasmosis?
Toxoplasmosis is a parasitic disease caused by the protozoan Toxoplasma gondii. Malaria is caused by plasmodium, which is a genus of Apicomplexan parasites.
What are some unicellular organisms?
Paramecium bursaria Toxoplasma gondii Crenarchaeota Korarchaeota Testate amoebae Escherichia coli Jonquetella Thermus aquaticus Leptomyxida
What is the source of toxoplasmosis?
The single-celled protozoan Toxoplasma gondii produces eggs in cat intestines. The eggs shed in cat feces and can survive for up to 18 months in the soil.
A parasitic protozoan called toxoplasma gondii can create cysts leading to toxoplasmosis which is especially bad news for pregnant women how might they be exposed to it?
Cleaning the cat litter box
What is toxoplasmosis?
Toxoplasmosis is a disease caused by the parasite Toxoplasma gondii, which is endemic in cats. It is usually caught in the process of cleaning litter boxes. While it can have an effect on adult humans, the effects on unborn children can be much greater, which is why doctors recommend that pregnant women not handle cat litter. The organism that causes the disease is of interest to science because it affects the brains of rats and mice in ways that seem designed to increase the spread of the disease.
What is toxoplasmosis mold?
Actually I also did not know the meaning. But after searching a few minutes I got it, the answer is Toxoplasmosis is a parasitic disease caused by the protozoan Toxoplasma gondii. The parasite infects most genera of warm-blooded animals.
How are infections linked to birth defects?
Three viruses are known to harm a developing baby: rubella, cytomegalovirus (CMV), and herpes simplex. Toxoplasma gondii, a parasite.causes serious problems. Untreated syphilis in the mother also is harmful.
