Question

6. What is parasite? Give an example for parasitic mode of nutrition.​

Answer 1

Answer:

The parasites and the host in parasitic nutrition involve symbiotic interaction which is harmful to the host. They depend on their host for survival and the host provides nutrition and protection. Tapeworms, barnacles show the parasitic mode of nutrition.

Answer 2

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✔A parasite is an organism that lives on or in a host organism and gets its food from or at the expense of its host. There are three main classes of parasites that can cause disease in humans: protozoa, helminths, and ectoparasites.

Example:-

✔fleas

✔tapworm

Mode of nutrition:-

Parasitic nutrition is a mode of heterotrophic nutrition where an organism lives on the body surface or inside the body of another type of organism . The parasite obtains nutrition directly from the body of the host. ... Most parasites are heterotrophs, so they are unable to synthesise their own 'food'.