Question

PARASITIC NUTRITION IN -------------------

Answer 1

• 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

Answer 2

Some organisms feed on the expense of another organism and in turn causing it harm. This is called parasitic mode of nutrition.

These organisms live on the body or in the body of a host organism and derive the nutrients directly from the body of the host.

E.g. Leech is an ectoparasite while Ascaris is an endoparasite. Cuscuta is a parasitic plant.