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Explanatory slides packages for different parasites and parasites specimens.Explanatory slides packages for different parasites and parasites specimens.
preying on other animals
Unfortunately that will be different for different parasites, some will not even be visible as they are microscopic.
Predation is different from parasitism in that predators kill their prey before consumption. Parasites must keep their hosts alive in order to continually feed off of them.
bacteria, viruses, fungi and parasites
Worms are normally not external parasites, but internal parasites. External parasites include different arthropod species like ticks, fleas, lice, mosquitos....
No, people in modern industrialized nations almost never have any parasites in their body due to public hygiene practices (e.g. sewage treatment plants, sterile feeds for farm animals, insect controls). However people in third world countries almost always have hundreds or thousands of parasites of dozens of different species in their bodies.
Yes they are, they eat fish, crab, turtles and some other animals.
No, they do not! The evidence shows that malaria parasites that infect lizards have two kinds of ribosomes and malaria parasites that infect lizards have only one.
Depends on the animal because each farm animal has different types of parasites that could affect it.
flea tick
Parasites are organisms that feed off of other organisms. they Benefit while the other is harmed. Mitosis is the division of cells. They are totally different.