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MASINDE MULIRO UNIVERSITY OF
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
(MMUST)
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UNIVERSITY EXAMINATIONS (MAIN EXAMINATION)
2018/2019 ACADEMIC YEAR
THIRD YEAR FIRST TRIMESTER EXAMINATIONS
FOR THE DEGREE
OF
BACHELOR OF SCIENCE, MEDICAL LABORATORY
SCIENCES
COURSE CODE: BML 323
COURSE TITLE: medical entomology & vector biology
DATE: 24TH MAY 2019 TIME: 8.00 -10.00 AM
INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES
This paper is divided into three sections, A B and C, carrying respectively:
Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs), Short Answer Questions (SAQs) and Long
Answer Questions (LAQs). Answer all questions.
TIME: 2 Hours
MMUST observes ZERO tolerance to examination
cheating
This Paper Consists of 4 Printed Pages. Please Turn Over
SECTION A: Multiple Choice Questions (20 Marks)
1. Cyclo-propagative development in arthropods refers to the
(a) Change in the developmental stage of the disease pathogen, while the number of the
pathogenic organism remains constant.
(b) Infected egg completing its developmental stage and becoming infective
(c) Increase in number of pathogens but the developmental stage remaining constant.
(d) Disease pathogen undertaking a change both in number and developmental form
2. The class Arachnida comprises of insects with __________________
(a) Two body parts
(b) Three body parts
(c) Two pairs of antennae.
(d) The abdomen consisting of spiracles and sex organs
3. Which one of the following insects does not belong to the order Anoplura
(a) Sand flies
(b) Tsetse flies
(c) Sucking lice
(d) House flies
4. Which one of the following mosquito control measures is directed towards juvenile
mosquitoes?
(a) Use of bed nets
(b) Indoor residual spraying
(c) Draining of stagnant waters
(d) Use of light traps
5. The following are characteristics of the Order Hemiptera EXCEPT?
(a) Their mouthparts are piercing and sucking with the segmented beak
(b) Undergo complete metamorphosis
(c) wings are present and positioned flat over the abdomen when at rest
(d) composed of true bugs
6. Different arrangements of -------------------- forms the mouthparts of insects
a. Antennae
b. Ocelli
c. Appendages
d. Omattidia
7. Insects with sponging mouthparts
a. Are adapted for use in eating liquid or readily soluble foods
b. Use their mandibles and the maxillae
c. Cut, grind up and swallow their food.
d. Have anticoagulants in their saliva
8. Cursorial legs of insects are adapted for
a. Jumping
b. Running
c. Grasp &hold the prey
d. Excavating
9. ___________________are the major organs for respiration in insects
a. Malpighian tubes
b. Spiracles
c. Proboscis
d. Crop
10. Which of these blood-feeding insects complete their entire life cycle on the host?
(a) Fleas
(b) Mosquitoes
(c) Sucking lice
(d) Bed bugs
11. Which of these groups of arthropods transmit Babesia species?
(a) Ticks
(b) Kissing (conenose) bugs
(c) Deer flies
(d) Mosquitoes
12. Which of these groups of arthropods transmit the causative agents of Plague and murine
(endemic) typhus to humans?
(a) Fleas
(b) Kissing (conenose) bugs
(c) Sucking lice
(d) Chewing lice
13. The abdomen of insects comprises of?
(a) Antennae and proboscis
(b) Legs and wings
(c) Reproductive and nervous system
(d) Eyes and mouthparts
14. Trans-ovarian and trans-stadial disease transmission is seen in ______________
(a) Mosquitoes
(b) Mango flies
(c) Tsetse flies
(d) Ticks
15. In the respiratory system of insects, the air sacs are used for?
(a) Distributing air and cooling the body, particularly during flight
(b) Taking up air in the insect’s body
(c) For filtering air
(d) For circulating O2 in to various organs
16. Oviparitity reproduction in insects refers to?
(a) Laying of nymphal stages instead of eggs
(b) Laying of immature larvae instead of eggs
(c) Laying of fertile eggs which hatch and reach the adulthood
(d) Laying of mature larvae instead of eggs
17. Which on of the following pathogen is not transmitted biologically.
(a) Entamoeba histolytica
(b) Yersinia pestis
(c) Rickettsia rickettsi
(d) Yellow fever
18. Which one of the following is not a characteristic of learned behaviour in insects
a. Extrinsic
b. Permutable
c. Adaptable
d. Stereotypic
19. -------------------------------------- is the active and feeding stage in insects
a. Lavae
b. Egg
c. Pupa
d. Adult
20. In insects, the simple eyes, with their single facets merely distinguish the lighter from
the darker part of the environment.
a. True
b. False
SECTION B: Short Answer Questions (40 Marks)
21. Explain why insects are diverse in the world (6 Marks)
22. Describe the insects collection techniques (6 Marks)
23. Outline the functions of the insects exoskeleton (6 Marks)
24. Describe the excretory system of insects (6Marks)
25. Explain the defense mechanisms of insect against their predators (6 Marks)
26. Describe the external morphology of insects (4 Marks)
27. Name three Genera of mosquitoes and the diseases by each genus (6mks)
SECTION C: Long Answer Questions (40 Marks)
28. Discuss the general methods employed in the control of insects (20 Marks)
29. Give a detailed account of the biology and economic importance of Glossina Species
(10 Marks)
30. Describe the effects of environmental factors on the growth of insects (10 Marks)
