Biology homework help

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  1. Insects as Pests and Vectors of disease:
  2. Match the disease below right (1 to 11) to the appropriate corresponding name of the Order of insects that transmits the disease on the left (A – J). (5 points).

 

  1. Diptera: Culicidae
  2. Diptera: Tabanidae
  3. Diptera: Glossinidae
  4. Diptera: Psychodidae
  5. Diptera: Simulidae
  6. Hemiptera: Triatomidae
  7. Siphonaptera: Pulicidae
  8. Pthiraptera: Pediculidae (lice)
  9. Blattodea
  10. Plecoptera

 

 

  1. Trypanosomiasis – sleeping sickness
  2. Typhus
  3. Cholera
  4. Dengue fever
  5. Bubonic plague
  6. Oncocerciasis – River blindeness
  7. Filariases
  8. Loiasis (Loa loa or eye worm)
  9. Leishmianiasis
  10. Equine Encephalitis
  11. Yellow fever.

 

  1. Other than serving as vectors of disease causing pathogens, in what other ways do insects negatively impact the health and wellbeing of people? (5 points).

 

 

 

 

  1. How does a single cycle disease differ from a secondary cycle disease when pathogens are transferred by insect vectors?  (5 points)