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A parasitic organism is a life-form that can not sustain life without another living creature or plant.
It often lack the ability to "digest" food and utilize a host by draining its nutrients.
Some parasites do however digest food, they just use a host as food, eating away on the host or eating away on the food the host have eaten.
Most if not all are defined as parasites because they can not live for long outside or away from a host of which is its feeding ground.
A parasite is bad for a host because there are normally no benefits to the host from them.
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What does free living flatworms mean?
Not parasitic on another organism
A symbiotic relationship in which one organism is helped and the other is harmed?
paracitism
Are human parasitic or free-living organisms?
The difference between a free-living organism and a parasitic organism is their habit. A free-living organism finds a way to survive anywhere but a parasitic organism has to find a host in order to survive.A free living organism can find/ hunt/ or produce it's own food, while a parasitic organism must attach itself to a "host" in order to gain nutrients.
What determines whether a symbiotic relationship between a protist and its host is mutualistic or parasitic?
a parasitic relationship is when one organism benefits whilst the other is forced to suffermutualistic relationship is where both organisms receive something beneficial out of the relationship
What is the a name for a type of symbiotic relationship in which one organism lives off another and normally hurts the host cell in the process?
Parasitic.
If an organism is not parasitic it is?
free living
Is humans are free-living organism?
Organisms can be grouped as free-living or parasitic. A parasite is an organism which lives in or on another organism, from which it obtains its food. Since humans do not do this they are not parasitic, and so must be free-living.
what is Parasite?
the parasites which complete their life cycles in one host
What is a zooparasite?
A zooparasite is any organism which is parasitic to an animal.
What is the organism that benefits in a parasitic relationship?
It would be the parasite
In a parasitic relationship the organism that benefits is called?
predator
Are planarians parasitic?
Planarians are free living and not parasitic. Other classes of their phylum, including flukes and tapeworms, are parasitic when they live inside another organism.
What is the relationship called of an organism living within another organism?
It's called a parasitic relationship.
What does free living flatworms mean?
Not parasitic on another organism
In a parasitic relationship the organism that benefits is called what?
It would be the parasite
What is the largest organism that enter the body to cause infections?
parasitic worms
What is an interaction in which an organism captures and feeds on the other is called?
Parasitic describes one organism that feeds on the other from within.
