Question

Define the following terms with suitable examples:- (a) Nutrition (b) Symbiosis (c) Sericulture (d) Parasite (e) Sorter's disease (f) Saprotrophs

Answer 1

NUTRITION
the process of providing or obtaining the food necessary for health and growth.

SYMBIOSIS
interaction between two different organisms living in close physical association, typically to the advantage of both.
a mutually beneficial relationship

SERICULTURE
the production of silk and the rearing of silkworms for this purpose.

PARASITE
an organism that lives in or on an organism of another species (its host) and benefits by deriving nutrients at the other's expense.

SORTER DISEASE
pulmonary form of anthrax that results from the inhalation of spores of the bacterium Bacillus anthracis in the wool of contaminated sheep.

SAPROTROPHS
an organism that feeds on or derives nourishment from decaying organic matter.

Answer 2

a)to fulfil all requirements of body, 6 components together known as nutrition

b)Symbiosis is any type of a close and long-term biological interaction between two different biological organisms, be it mutualistic, commensalistic, or parasitic. The organisms, each termed a symbiont, may be of the same or of different species. 

c)cultivation of silk worm in order to sell silk

d)A parasite is an organism that lives in or on another organism

e)pulmonary form of anthrax that results from the inhalation of spores of the bacterium Bacillus anthracis in the wool of contaminated sheep.

f)an organism that feeds on or derives nourishment from decaying organic matter.