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Starapollo1 wrote:Okay so I have a question, today at our competition we had to identify specific types of protozoa worms that caused diseases (and of the five only one caused a microbial disease we are supposed to know). I don't think this is something we are supposed to know... am I incorrect? Have other people been given actual specimens and been asked to identify them and then know what they cause? Please let me know!!

Hi there. (:

I don't know about identifying specific types of protozoa worms, considering I haven't gotten a station test yet (in this event, anyway). I got a lot of diseases we weren't supposed to know on one test, though - my partner and I only knew about half of them, and she's also in Disease Detectives. I guess the diseases thing is rather common.

(And do I see another Kansan on this thread? That's rare.)

ribonucleicacid621 wrote:You also might have to know/identify microbiology lab equipment and its function, such as the inoculation loop.

My friend said that her regional test for Microbe was like 75% about microscopes; she did manage 5th place though.

And as for diseases being on the test that weren't supposed to be, that does happen a lot, which is annoying. I remember being asked in a herpetology event to specifically ID different sea turtles, when the list specified that we only had to be able to ID them as sea turtles (as opposed to other turtles) without having to differentiate them by species. But event writers don't always follow the rules (it's usually better at states than regionals).

Starapollo1 wrote:Okay so I have a question, today at our competition we had to identify specific types of protozoa worms that caused diseases (and of the five only one caused a microbial disease we are supposed to know). I don't think this is something we are supposed to know... am I incorrect? Have other people been given actual specimens and been asked to identify them and then know what they cause? Please let me know!!

Protozoa worms? And you're in Microbes?

Big part of the test was about pathogyns/antogyns

Flavorflav wrote:

Starapollo1 wrote:Okay so I have a question, today at our competition we had to identify specific types of protozoa worms that caused diseases (and of the five only one caused a microbial disease we are supposed to know). I don't think this is something we are supposed to know... am I incorrect? Have other people been given actual specimens and been asked to identify them and then know what they cause? Please let me know!!

Protozoa worms? And you're in Microbes?

LOL THat's what I said!??!!?? I have memorized every single microbial disease along with most of the pathogens that cause them and I was totally unprepared to identify the protozoa worms, lol I was just making sure I wasn't studying the wrong thing

Starapollo1 wrote:

Flavorflav wrote:

Starapollo1 wrote:Okay so I have a question, today at our competition we had to identify specific types of protozoa worms that caused diseases (and of the five only one caused a microbial disease we are supposed to know). I don't think this is something we are supposed to know... am I incorrect? Have other people been given actual specimens and been asked to identify them and then know what they cause? Please let me know!!

Protozoa worms? And you're in Microbes?

LOL THat's what I said!??!!?? I have memorized every single microbial disease along with most of the pathogens that cause them and I was totally unprepared to identify the protozoa worms, lol I was just making sure I wasn't studying the wrong thing

I think you mean parasitic worms. Protozoa worm doesn't make any sense - it's like saying "coniferous vertebrate" or something.

You should always study more diseases than listed because event supervisors often make tests that don't exactly follow the rules packet. For example, Tay Sachs disease was on the invitational test that I took on Saturday and that's a genetic disorder (I believe) which is not transmitted by microbes at all.

ribonucleicacid621 wrote:You should always study more diseases than listed because event supervisors often make tests that don't exactly follow the rules packet. For example, Tay Sachs disease was on the invitational test that I took on Saturday and that's a genetic disorder (I believe) which is not transmitted by microbes at all.

That begs the question of which specific extra diseases to study, though. Some extra ones I got on my test were common sense (bubonic plague, for example), but others weren't.

Starapollo1 wrote: LOL THat's what I said!??!!?? I have memorized every single microbial disease along with most of the pathogens that cause them and I was totally unprepared to identify the protozoa worms, lol I was just making sure I wasn't studying the wrong thing

Parasitic worms are part of added diseases for Nationals, so I suppose they're fair game.

sciencegirl23 wrote:
Parasitic worms are part of added diseases for Nationals, so I suppose they're fair game.

At competitions other than Nationals, though? I often seem to get National-level material in invitationals...