Discussion: 1. Compare the ratio of the lengths of the intestine in earthworms, frogs, pigs, and humans. What significance do the lengths have with respect to the organism? Based on dissection, it was noted that the length of the intestine in earthworms, frogs, and humans all vary in sizes. The intestine of the earthworm is about two-thirds of the worm 's body length.…
Found in lakes, ponds and any area that well have any rocky substance or logs. Rusty Crayfish, is an invader that has invaded lakes in the northern reagan. There robust claws that most members of the Orconectes genius don't have makes then an unique but dangerous species . It was first indentificaded as “Rusty ” in Belgrade, great pond in the late 1968. It curentaly was founded in Michigan, Massachusetts, Missouri, Iowa, Minnesota, New Mexico and parts in New england expect wisconsin, canada and Ontario.…
A digestive tract, reproductive organs, and blood vessels could be seen inside the earthworm. The mouth led to a pharynx, esophagus (which was covered by the reproductive organs), a soft crop, hard gizzard, and an intestine that continued on to the rest of the body. The earthworm’s brain was barely visible. A pair of small, white, ball-shaped seminal receptacles lay on each side of the earthworm, along with two pairs of larger, whitish seminal vesicles below them. Beneath the reproductive organs, a dark aortic arch was visible.…
Ostherr also convincingly connects her evidence to her sub-claims and central argument. In Chapter One, Ostherr uses the Rockefeller Foundation’s production of Unhooking the Hookworm as an example of how biopower works—the health film had the ability to either “help viewers imagine unseen worlds and change their behavior accordingly [emphasis added], or alternatively, to reject the visualization as implausible and, therefore, irrelevant to their daily life,” in which case biopower would not have operated successfully upon the viewers (Ostherr 46). Ostherr successfully supports her claim by further stating that Unhooking the Hookworm “illustrates the recurring idea that there are core differences between audiences of “medical men” and the “general…
Imagine you having a green worm crawling around in your ear and the only way to get it out this to put bacon by your ear. I’m reading Body Bags and I’m on page 194/200. In this journal I will questioning how people are getting this worm and predicting Jenna’s dad has the worm an will be fine. While reading this book I wonder how the worm is getting in peoples ear.…
In maryland, a doctor named Theodore Nash takes on many patients that have tapeworms in their brain. Most of the time tapeworms are found in people’s intestines in their adult stage but before their adult stage they go through a larvae stage. Sometimes the tape worms in their larval stage can get into people’s brains and cause the illness called neurocysticercosis. This illness is easily confused with other brain disorder which has made it hard for doctors to know how many people are affected with neurocysticercosis. At minimum there are 5 million cases of it.…
A man had something amazing living in his fish tank, and he did not notice it for two years. He decided to clean out his fish tank one day because he noticed that there were coral colonies missing. While he was cleaning out the tank, he noticed a bristle worm. The bristle worm is also known as a Polychaete. He stated that after he discovered the bristle worm, he only saw it three times over the course of a year.…
Pinworms (Enterobius vermicularis) is a worm that is shaped like a small bracelet that live in the lower part of the digestive tract. A person exposed to the pinworms infection, also known as oxyuriasis. Pinworms infection most often occurs in children, could even affect up to two-thirds of children aged 5-10 years. The worm, which on average has a body length of 5 to 13 millimeters, usually put its eggs on the folds of skin around the anus at the time the sufferer being asleep.…
Heart worms where given the scientific name of Dirofilaria Immitis. Heartworms are a type of parasitic round worms and can grow to be a massive 5 foot long. These worms typically live in the hearts of dogs but can be in other pets as well such as cats and ferrets. Dirofilaria Immitis do not only infect pets but can also infect wild animals such as foxes, wolves and coyotes. In very rare cases Dirofilaria Immitis can even infect humans.…
The glow worm is an insect that lives in grassy areas, and anywhere with plants. Glow worms also are omnivores and eat meat, they tend to eat snails and slugs, which makes up the glow worms diet. The worm has some distinctive features such as a hard shell for protection, a light at the end of it and through their body, with little horn things at the top of the head. The glow worm is also not an extinct bug; they are still around just not many seen. The glow worms habitat are woodland and caves.…
I want to thank you for contacting us here at PowerBar. I want to apologize again for your unfortunate and rare issue you had with one of our products. I understand how disgusting it must be to find these worms in your food. I also want to assume you that Entomologist say that the worms are not toxic and will not harm humans.…
The American Heartworm Society is focused on growing concerns…
Brainworm By: Kaleb Duffy The Brainworm is mostly found in Eastern North America. These 3 places are where they are mostly located. Nova Scotia,New Brunswick,and Ontario are where these parasites are mostly located. The brainworm mostly targets deer because the deer can’t feel much of it because they have thick fur. Then when the worm reaches the head it infects the deer and the deer will probably die shortly after.…
The invertebrate family is a group of species that don’t exactly have a spine. The mealworm start off as an egg, then once they hatch, they turn into a larva. This is the stage that they look like worms. After living like a larva, they turn into a pupa. Then they turn into a dark mealworm beetle.…
1. Guinea worm disease is likely to become the first parasitic disease to be globally eradicated. 2. A female Guinea Worm can grow up to three feet! 3.…