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What Is a Roundworm?
What Is a Roundworm?
Most species of roundworms are free-living,
inhabiting soil, salt flats, aquatic sediments, and
water, from polar regions to the tropics.
Others are parasitic and live in hosts.
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What Is a Roundworm?
What are the defining features of
roundworms?
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What Is a Roundworm?
Roundworms are unsegmented worms
that have pseudocoeloms and digestive
systems with two openings—a mouth
and an anus.
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What Is a Roundworm?
Roundworms have a body cavity between the
endoderm and mesoderm tissues.
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What Is a Roundworm?
This cavity is partially lined with tissue derived from
the mesoderm and is called a pseudocoelom,
meaning, “false coelom.”
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What Is a Roundworm?
Roundworms have a digestive tract with two
openings.
Food moves in one direction through the digestive
tract of roundworms.
Any food that is not digested leaves the body through
the anus.
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Form and Function in Roundworms
Form and Function in Roundworms
Roundworms have specialized tissues and organ
systems that carry out essential physiological
functions.
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Form and Function in Roundworms
Feeding
Many free-living roundworms use grasping
mouthparts and spines to catch and eat other
small animals.
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Respiration, Circulation, and Excretion
Roundworms exchange gases and excrete
metabolic waste through their body walls.
They depend on diffusion to carry nutrients and
waste through their bodies.
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Response
Roundworms have simple nervous systems,
consisting of several ganglia.
Several nerves extend from ganglia in the head
and run the length of the body.
These nerves transmit sensory information and
control movement.
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Movement
Fluid in the pseudocoelom and muscles extending
the length of their bodies function as a hydrostatic
skeleton.
Aquatic roundworms contract muscles to move like
snakes through the water.
Soil-dwelling roundworms push their way through
the soil by thrashing around.
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Reproduction
Roundworms reproduce sexually.
Most species have separate sexes.
Roundworms reproduce using internal fertilization.
Parasitic roundworms often have life cycles that
involve two or three different hosts or several
organs within a single host.
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Roundworms and Human Disease
What roundworms cause human disease?
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Roundworms and Human Disease
Roundworms and Human Disease
Parasitic roundworms include
trichinosis-causing worms, filarial
worms, ascarid worms, and hookworms.
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Trichinosis-Causing Worms
Adult Trichinella worms live and mate in the
intestines of their hosts.
Female worms carrying fertilized eggs burrow into
the intestinal wall and release larvae.
Larvae travel through the bloodstream and burrow
into organs and tissues.
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The larvae form cysts and become inactive in the
host’s muscle tissue.
Trichinella completes its life cycle only when another
animal eats muscle tissue containing these cysts.
Humans can get trichinosis by eating raw or
incompletely cooked pork.
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Trichinella
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Roundworms and Human Disease
Filarial Worms
Filarial worms are threadlike worms that live in the
blood and lymph vessels of birds and mammals.
They are transmitted by biting insects.
Large numbers of filarial worms may block the
passage of fluids within lymph vessels and cause
swelling.
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Elephantitis
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Ascarid Worms
Ascaris lumbricoides is a serious parasite of
humans and many other vertebrate animals.
It absorbs digested food from the host’s small
intestine.
Ascaris lumbricoides is commonly spread by
eating foods that are not washed properly.
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Ascarid worms
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Ascaris Life Cycle
1 Human ingests food or
water containing Ascaris
eggs.
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Ascaris Life Cycle
2 The eggs travel to
the small intestine
and develop into
larvae.
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Ascaris Life Cycle
3 Larvae enter blood
vessels and are
carried to the lungs
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Ascaris Life Cycle
4 Larvae are coughed
up and swallowed.
They then travel to
the small intestine
where they develop
to maturity
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Ascaris Life Cycle
5 Eggs are released
and leave the host
in feces.
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Hookworms
Hookworm eggs hatch and develop in the soil.
They use sharp toothlike plates and hooks to
burrow into the skin and enter the bloodstream.
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Hookworms travel through the blood of their host to
the lungs and down to the intestines.
There, they suck the host’s blood, causing weakness
and poor growth.
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Hookworms
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