Lab Organisms
This is the genus name of the organism commonly referred to as bread mold. It is known to produces zygospores and sporangia.
Rhizopus
Ancyclostoma (hookworm)
The anterior segment of a tapeworm that usually contains both hooks and suckers.
scolex
coccus
The name of a simple stain that stains purple.
Crystal violet
This is the genus name of the organism commonly known as the sheep liver fluke.
Fasciola
The host that houses the sexually reproductive form of a parasite.
Definitive host
The structure Amoeba use to move and engulf food.
pseudopodia
The color of a Gram positive bacteria.
Purple
4X
This is the phylum to which hookworms, like Ancyclostoma, belong.
Nematoda
The free-living larval form of Clonorchis that hatches from the egg.
miracidium
The name of a spore found on an Aspergillus.
conidia
Strepto-
The name of the primary stain used for an Acid-Fast stain.
carbolfuchsin
The genus name of the organism that is free-living, covered with cilia and has both a macronucleus and micronuclei.
Paramecium
The name of the encysted larval form of Taenia found in the striated muscle tissue of an organism that is consumed by the human host.
cysticercus
The reproductive segment of a tapeworm.
proglottid
The elevation descriptor of a bacterial colony that is flat at the edges but comes to a peak in the middle.
umbonate
The final step of creating a bacteria smear on a slide prior to Gram-staining.
heat fixing
This is the genus and species name of a Gram-positive coccal bacteria that is commonly found on the skin, is not typically disease causing and does not ferment mannitol.
Staphylococcus epidermidis
The sac structure in which spores develop during sexual and asexual life cycles of Rhizopus.
Sporangium
The compound in the cell wall of a bacterium that makes it Acid fast positive.
mycolic acid
Escherichia coli
The name of the first stain used during an endospore stain.
malachite green