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A parasitic organism is a life-form that can not sustain life without another living creature or plant.
It often lack the ability to "digest" food and utilize a host by draining its nutrients.
Some parasites do however digest food, they just use a host as food, eating away on the host or eating away on the food the host have eaten.
Most if not all are defined as parasites because they can not live for long outside or away from a host of which is its feeding ground.
A parasite is bad for a host because there are normally no benefits to the host from them.
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A parasitic organism is an organism that lives in or on another organism (the host) and obtains nutrients at the host’s expense. Parasites can cause harm to the host by feeding on its tissues, disrupting its normal functions, or spreading diseases. Examples of parasitic organisms include tapeworms, ticks, and some types of bacteria.
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What are examples of hyperparasitism?
One example of hyperparasitism is when a parasitic wasp lays its eggs inside a host that is already infected with parasitic larvae. Another example is when a fungus infects a parasitic organism that is already living on a host organism.
What interaction between organisms would be described as parasitic?
Parasitic interactions involve one organism benefiting at the expense of another organism. The parasite benefits by obtaining nutrients or shelter from the host, while the host is harmed in the process. Parasites can be external, like ticks and fleas, or internal, like tapeworms and parasitic fungi.
A symbiotic relationship in which one organism is helped and the other is harmed?
paracitism
Name the mode of nutrition in round worm and plasmodium?
Round worms are heterotrophic, obtaining their nutrition by feeding on organic matter in their environment. Plasmodium is a parasitic protist that obtains its nutrition by feeding on the blood of its host organism.
Can a bacteria be parasitic?
Yes, some bacteria can be parasitic. Parasitic bacteria rely on a host organism to survive, often causing harm or disease to the host in the process. An example is the bacterium that causes tuberculosis in humans.
If an organism is not parasitic it is?
free living
Is humans are free-living organism?
Organisms can be grouped as free-living or parasitic. A parasite is an organism which lives in or on another organism, from which it obtains its food. Since humans do not do this they are not parasitic, and so must be free-living.
what is Parasite?
the parasites which complete their life cycles in one host
What is a zooparasite?
A zooparasite is any organism which is parasitic to an animal.
What is the organism that benefits in a parasitic relationship?
It would be the parasite
In a parasitic relationship the organism that benefits is called?
predator
What are examples of hyperparasitism?
One example of hyperparasitism is when a parasitic wasp lays its eggs inside a host that is already infected with parasitic larvae. Another example is when a fungus infects a parasitic organism that is already living on a host organism.
What is the relationship called of an organism living within another organism?
It's called a parasitic relationship.
In a parasitic relationship the organism that benefits is called what?
It would be the parasite
What is the largest organism that enter the body to cause infections?
parasitic worms
What is an interaction in which an organism captures and feeds on the other is called?
Parasitic describes one organism that feeds on the other from within.
What is a parasitic worm?
A parasitic worm is a worm that feeds on another organism, its 'host'. For example a tape worm. It latches onto the intestine of humans.
