What is the host?

Answer 1

Melanie Stryder is one of few "wild" humans - rebels who have evaded the alien souls that have taken over the Earth. With her younger brother Jamie and the man she loves, Jared Howe, Mel is on the run from souls who hunt down host bodies for use. Souls are creatures that rely upon host bodies to survive. After insertion, they erase any mental presence of the being there prior and establish a claim over the body and mind. Earth is Wanderer's ninth planet, and Mel is her ninth host body. Upon waking inside her new body, she is shocked not only by the vividness of human emotions, memories, and senses, but quickly learns that Melanie Stryder is not willing to give up her mind. Wanderer is bombarded with memories and her host body's yearning for Jared and Jamie, and finds herself in love with the humans and desperate to see if they are still alive. On a road trip to Tucson, Melanie remembers her Uncle Jeb telling her about a secret hideaway he once made. Wanderer sets out to find the hideaway, and is found half-dead with exhaustion and dehydration by Jeb. She is taken back to the caves in which some "wild" humans live, but is treated spitefully as they believe Wanderer to be a "parasite" in Melanie's body. Kyle O'Shea and many others attempt to kill Wanderer, but are stopped by Jeb. Given time, Wanderer, now becoming known as 'Wanda', becomes a part of the routine by working, eating, and becoming an unofficial history teacher after evening meals; some even grow to believe that Melanie is present in her mind as well. During this time Ian and many other humans, such as Wes, Lily, and Walter, befriend Wanda. Kyle tries to kill Wanda by throwing her into a river. He is unsuccessful and is about to fall into the river himself when Wanda saves him. A tribunal is held and it is decided that Kyle is allowed to stay, though many of Wanda's friends are upset about this decision, particularly Ian. Meanwhile, Ian begins to fall in love with Wanda. After discovering this, she is confused with her own feelings. When Jamie returns from a raid with an infected cut on his leg, Wanda and Jared sneak out to a hospital where she goes undercover to steal supplies to bring back to Jamie and the rest. At this point the humans realize that Wanda can be of use to them as a raider, because she is trusted by other souls. Following another raid, Wanda decides to reveal her biggest secret: how to remove a soul without killing either the human or the soul, a procedure that their doctor had been attempting unsuccessfully. She promises to teach Doc under two conditions: first, he promises to send the souls to new planets without harming them, and second, he promises to remove Wanda's soul from Melanie's body and bury Wanda, who does not want to be a parasite any longer. Wanda sneaks away from Ian, who is enraged at the idea of Wanda ending her life. She realizes that she too loves Ian. Later she sneaks away and has Doc remove her from Melanie's body. However, later she awakens in a new body whose original owner did not consciously return, and it is revealed that none of the humans wished for her to leave. The book ends with the rebels, when on a raid with Wanda, discovering another rebel group who also have a soul among them. This discovery suggests that humanity and Souls together may still have hope for the future.

Answer 2

definitive host - a host in which a parasite reaches sexual maturity.

malaria is a good example. the malaria parasite mates and reproduces in the mosquito. However, it's gametocytes are formed in humans, making humans the definitive host (not mosquitoes).

Answer 3

Any organism that hosts a parasite or symbiot, you are a host right now. There are about 25 species that live on humans. These relationships can be broken down in to three main categories. 1. Beneficial, where both parties benefit from the arrangment, such as the fish that clean parasites off of whales, the fish get a meal, the whale gets clean. 2. Indefferent, such as the ones that live in your hair, folic mites, they don't bother you, but they don't help you either. 3. Parasitic, these are your standard guys, fleas, ticks, tape worms, and some mites. Hope some of that helps. Some will tell you that the first is called a symbiote, that is technically not true, all of these relationships are symbiotic.

Answer 4

Host as in entertainment, or host as in victim?

Answer 5

A host has a particular function in the realm of Biology. Quite simply, a host is something that harbors a parasite.

Answer 6

Host is a person who provides Hospitality.

Answer 7

a host is basically the same as prey. but in this case, the host would be in a parasitism relationship. for example: a blood sucking tick would be the predator and a dog would be the host.

Answer 8

Host is a living organism which gets harmed by the parasite because to get food.

Answer 9

what is host

Answer 10

Dog and a flea