1.

(i) Name any two helminths which are known to be pathogenic to human.(ii) List two symptoms of the diseases caused by any one of them.

Answer»

(i) Ascarts, wuchereria

(ii) Symptoms-internal bleeding muscular pain, fever anaemia, blockage of the internal passage( any two) chronic inflammation of the organs, deformities in genital organs.

Detailed:

(i) Two helminths pathogenic to humans are:

(a) Ascaris-causing ascariasis disease in humans.

(b) wuchereria bancrofti & malayi causing filariasis or elephantasis in humans

Symptoms of Ascariasis : Internal bleeding muscular pain anaemia, blockage of intestinal passage.

Symptoms of Filariasis : Chronic inflammation of lymphatic vessels of lower limbs and gross deformities of genital or genital organs.



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