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Give reasons for the following:(1) Parasites tend to lose certain organs.(2) Clownfish lives among the tentacles of sea anemone.(3) Desert plants bears thick cuticle on their leaf surfaces.

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  1. Parasites have reduced ingestion and egesting organs as they obtain simple and digested food from the host.
  2. Sea anemone has stinging tentacles which protects the clownfish from its predators. Thus clownfish is benefited while anemone is neither harmed nor benefited. This shows commensalism interaction between the two.
  3. To prevent loss of water through transpiration during the day. Even their stomata are closed with the help of photosynthetic pathway (CAM) to reduce rate of transpiration.


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