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What is a harmful organism that lives on a host cell?

Parasite (not sure though)


What is the name of the relationship in which one organism lives on or in a host and harms it called?

An organism that lives on or in a host and harms it is usually called a parasite. When the relationship mutually beneficial instead of harmful, it is called a symbiote.


What is the difference between a parasite and a host?

A host is an organism that the parasite lives on. In other words the parasite may use the host's resources in a negative way. For example: A tick living off the blood of a human. The tick is the parasite and the human is the host. The tick lives off the blood of the human.


Organism that lives inside or on another organism?

parasite is the organism that lives on other organism without any benefit to the host.


What is an internal parasite?

An external parasite is an organism that lives on another organism. The external parasite depends on its host for food and shelter while the host is usually harmed.


What is an organism that lives at the expense of its host?

Parasite


An organism that supports a parasite?

A host organism provides a habitat for a parasite, allowing it to live, feed, and reproduce at the expense of the host's own resources and well-being. The relationship between a parasite and its host is often harmful to the host organism.


What does parasite mean in science?

In science, a parasite is an organism that lives in or on another organism (called the host) and benefits at the host's expense. Parasites can cause harm to the host by taking nutrients, causing disease, or even leading to death.


What organism lives on or in host at the expense of that host is called?

Living at the others expense would be a parasite


What is a parasite, and how does it harm the host organism it lives on or in?

A parasite is an organism that lives on or inside another organism, known as the host, and relies on the host for its survival. Parasites harm the host by feeding on its nutrients, tissues, or blood, which can weaken the host, cause disease, and even lead to death in severe cases.


How do you use host in a scientific sentence?

The host is the organism for which a parasite lives off of.


What is meant by true parasite?

A true parasite is an organism that lives on or in a host organism and derives nutrients from the host, often at the expense of the host's health. True parasites are dependent on the host for survival and reproduce within or on the host organism.