A. Write the name of the parasites below, with the help of the pictures and descript
(Protozoa,Mistletoe,Tlea)
1. These plants attach and penetrate themselves to the
branches of the trees and absorb water and nutrients
from the hosts.
2. These tiny insects can cause severe discomfort to our pets;
causing scratching, biting and restlessness,
3. These are single cell organisms that live in the intestines of
humans and animals. They can cause abdominal pain,
diarrhoea, rashes and fatigue.
Please give the answers of these questions.
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Answer:
Parasites live on or in other organisms and thrive to the detriment of their host.
Many different parasites can affect humans, and they can pass on diseases such as malaria and trichomoniasis.
Ensuring that food is fully cooked, using insect repellant, and following good hand hygiene rules can reduce the risk of getting parasites.
Answer:
In evolutionary ecology, parasitism is a symbiotic relationship between species, where one organism, the parasite, lives on or in another organism, the host, causing it some harm, and is adapted structurally to this way of life.[1] The entomologist E. O. Wilson has characterised parasites as "predators that eat prey in units of less than one".[2] Parasites include protozoans such as the agents of malaria, sleeping sickness, and amoebic dysentery; animals such as hookworms, lice, mosquitoes, and vampire bats; fungi such as honey fungus and the agents of ringworm; and plants such as mistletoe, dodder, and the broomrapes. There are six major parasitic strategies of exploitation of animal hosts, namely parasitic castration, directly transmitted parasitism (by contact), trophically transmitted parasitism (by being eaten), vector-transmitted parasitism, parasitoidism, and micropredation.
Like predation, parasitism is a type of consumer-resource interaction,[3] but unlike predators, parasites, with the exception of parasitoids, are typically much smaller than their hosts, do not kill them, and often live in or on their hosts for an extended period. Parasites of animals are highly specialised, and reproduce at a faster rate than their hosts. Classic examples include interactions between vertebrate hosts and tapeworms, flukes, the malaria-causing Plasmodium species, and fleas.
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