Question

define parasitic nutrition ?

Answer 1

Answer:

Parasitic nutrition is a type of nutrition in which the organisms live on or inside the body of their host and derive their food from them.There are two types of parasites:Ectoparasites: The live outside the body of the host. example- mosquitoEndoparasites: They live inside the body of the host.

example- Ascaris

Answer 2

$\Huge{\red{\underline{\textsf{ANSWER}}}}$

★ Parasitic Nutrition: This mode of nutrition is the characteristic of parasites. The parasites live on of inside the body of their hosts.

★ So, the parasites are dependent either wholly of partially on the host for nutrition e.g., plasmodium, liver flukes, Cuscuta, Ascaris etc.

★ There are two types of parasitic plants.

(i) Holo Parasitic: Those which completely depend on Nutrition, Example: Orobanki. This is found on the roots of potato, tomato and brinjal plant.

(ii) Partial Parasitic: Some plant partially depend on other, are called the partial parasite. Example: Sandal plant.