Question

Give examples of parasitic mode of nutrition

Answer 1

Examples of parasitic mode of nutrition are mosquito,ticks, lice, bedbugs , tapeworm .

Answer 2

Mosquitoes, ticks, lice, bedbugs, and tapeworms are examples of parasitic food sources. plants and animals

Parasitic mode of nutrition:

• A parasitic method of nourishment is one in which an organism (parasite) lives on the surface of another organism's body or inside its body (host).
• The parasite takes nutrition straight from the host's body and, as a result, causes harm to the host.
• Heterotrophic nutrition is the term for this sort of diet
• The parasite feeds itself straight from the host's body.

Examples:

Cuscuta:

• It's a parasitic plant that grows haustoria, or unique roots.
• They are non-green, and they feed by using their haustoria to obtain access to the host plant's food and water conducting tissues.

Mistletoe:

                  Mistletoe is likewise a parasitic plant that feeds on the vascular tissue of the host plant.

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