“The world is covered by tiny, unnoticed ______”
roundworms
Nematodes can be both deadly and also _____ ______ ______
save the world
A nematode is a _________
worm
Compared to the 8 billion people in the world, there are _______ billion nematodes for EVERY HUMAN ON EARTH
57
4 out of every _____ animals on earth are nematodes
5
The large intestinal roundworm can lay about 200,000 eggs in a _____
day
“The most abundant land animal in Antarctica’s polar desert is the ________”
nematode
About half of animals have their own parasitic nematode, meaning the parasite only __________
that one animal
Nematodes have been around at least ____ million years ago
400
C. Elegans was the first multicellular organism to _________
have its genome sequenced
the study of nematodes has led to scientific breakthroughs in things like ____ and ____
cancer and kidney disease
some nematodes have a layer of "fur" which is actually
bacteria
the biggest nematode, the Placentonema gigantissima, can be between ___ and _____ ______
7 and 8 meters
