The adult Sacculina is known as Sacculina externa which is a parasite of young decapod crustacean, the crab. Generally the female crab is parasitized by the Sacculina. The parasitic habit has caused much degeneracy of different structures in the adult and looks like a fleshy tumour. The adult looses all the external appendages, the carapace and the segmentation of the [...]
In this article we will discuss about the structure of haemoflagellates or Leishmania Donovani. This will also help you draw the diagram and structure of haemoflagellates. The genus Leishmania occurs only in two different forms or stages: (a) Amastigote form also known as "Leishman Donovan Body" occurring in vertebrates including man; and (b) Pro-mastigote form called the leptomonad occurring in [...]
Difference between Entamoeba histolytica and Entamoeba coli: Difference # E. histolytica: A. Trophozoite stage: (i) Fairly abundant in amoebic dysentery stools. (ii) The size varies from 10-30µ (iii) The outline shows finger like pseudopodia. (iv) Actively motile in nature. (v) Cytoplasm: Ectoplasm—prominent; Endoplasm—finely granular with ingested RBCs Vacuoles—scanty, spherical and defined. Nucleus: Nuclear membrane uniformly stained with chromatin; karyosome is [...]