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Define Parasitic nutrition |
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Answer» arasitic NUTRITION is that nutrition in which an ORGANISM DERIVES it's food from the body of another living organism without killing it.☛ The organism which obtains the food is called a ' PARASITE ' and the organism from whose body food is obtained is called ' host ' .☛ parasitic MODE of nutrition is observed in several fungi, bacteria,a few plants like cuscuta and some animal like plasmodium and underworms.☛ some other example of parasitic nutritions are ticks,lice,leeches and tapeworms.☛A parasite usually harms the host.The host may be plant or animal. Most of diseases which effect mankind,his domestic animals like dogs and cattle and his crops are caused by parasites. |
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