Ascaris+lumbricoides

BASIC __SCIENTIFIC CLASSIFICATION__: Species Ascaris lumbricoides

Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Nematoda Class: Secernentea Order: Ascaridida Family: Ascarididae

=BASIC PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION = Females are usually a staggering 30cm in length. In some cases some have reached 49 cm. They are 3-6mm in diameter.

Males are much smaller than their female counterparts. They range from 15cm to at most 30cm in length. They are only 2-4mm in diameter.

They are both a pinkish creamy color.

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 =HABITAT =

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">Ascaris lumbricoides usually dwell in the small intestine of humans. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">It produces a pepsin inhibitor so we can not digest it and it uses muscular activity to prevent us from excreting it. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">With its adaptations, Ascaris lumbricoides is perfectly adapted for livivng in the human small intestine, however, at times they <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">have also been found in the kidneys and brains of humans.

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=<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">NICHE = <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">The ecological role of Ascaris lumbricoides is a parasite.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">They have no known predators or other hosts beside humans. = = =<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">ODD = <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">Females lay 240,000 eggs per day <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 140%;">It is estimated that the Ascaris lumbricoides parasite has infected 1/4 to 1/3 of the world's human population.

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