Question

6. What is common for Cuscuta, ticks
and leeches:​

Answer 1

Cuscuta, ticks and leeches, all are parasites, i.e., organism which feeds on another living organism called its host. A parasite receives its food from the host but gives no benefit to host in return.

Answer 2

Answer:

Cuscuta, ticks and leeches, all are parasites, i.e., organism which feeds on another living organism called its host. A parasite receives its food from the host but gives no benefit to host in return.

Cuscuta, ticks, and leeches show the parasitic mode of nutrition. Cuscuta winds around plants and penetrates into the host stems via haustoria, forming direct connections to the vascular bundles of their hosts to withdraw water, carbohydrates, and other solutes. Ticks are large mites with leathery skin and in general, ticks are parasites of animals. All of them feed on vertebrate blood. Leeches are either predators