Chapter 9 Vocab/ques Word Scramble
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| Question | Answer |
| Vectors | carriers of pathogens |
| What must happen for a pathogen to be transmitted by a mosquito vector? | pathogen must migrate to the mosquito salivary gland and replicate there. |
| How do lice remain attached to their hosts? | by means of legs, claws, and teeth that are well adapted to grasping. |
| Name a disease transmitted by flea vectors. | plague |
| How do mites directly cause disease? | by burrowing into skin and inducing an intense allergic response |
| Name 2 organisms, their diseases, and the tick vectors that spread them. | Dermacentor andersoni--richetsia rickettsii--rock mtn spotted fever---ixodes scapularis--borrelia burgdorferi--lyme disease |
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