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What are the differences between a virus and a parasite?
A parasite is an organism that lives in or on another organism (the host) and benefits by deriving nutrients at the host's expense. A virus is a form of parasite.
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.
What is the relationship that exist between a virus and a human when the virus infects the human?
pathogen/host
A relationship between organisms in which one organism benefits at the expense of another?
A relationship in which one organism lives on or inside another organism and harms it is called parasitism. This is a form of a symbiotic relationship.
What are the differences between a virus and a eukaryote?
a virus has no membrane bound organelles,whereas a typical eukaryotic cell has membrane bound organelles such as mitochondria. A virus destroys a cell by replicating itself and assembling new viruses inside the host cell until it bursts, releasing hundreds of new viruses
What are the differences between a virus and a parasite?
A parasite is an organism that lives in or on another organism (the host) and benefits by deriving nutrients at the host's expense. A virus is a form of parasite.
What is the Differences between parasite and host?
The host provides shelter or food or even protection for a parasite. The parasite uses the host for food, etc.
How are viruses similar to parasites?
Viruses are similar to parasites because both require a host to survive and both destroy the cells in which they multiply (cause harm to the host).
What do you call a living thing that a virus or parasite lives on?
A host.
What is an obligate intercellular parasite?
an obligate intercellular parasite is a parasite that depend on its host to survive, an example would be a virus which depends on its host's metapolic activities and synthesis processes to replicate
When you have a cold are you the host or the parasite?
host to the virus, parasite off anyone that will bring you porn, whiskey, and pizza in bed for the rest of the week. that's ridiculus but yes your the host. :~)
Is there a predatorprey relationship between a parasite and its host?
yes, because the parasite is taking from the host and the host is not getting anything from it (unless the parasite is taking bad things from the host, which would mean it depends on the species of parasite).
What describes the relationship between a parasite and its host in a symbiotic relationship?
Life line a parasite canot exist with out a host.
How is a virus cause a disease in a host?
a virus can ony reproduce inside a living cell that surves as a host. A Host is living thing that a virus or parasite lives on or in . Using a host's cell as a tiny factory , the virus forces the host to make viruses rather than healthy new cells.
What is the difference between a sybiosis parasite and a sybiosis host?
Im assuming that you havent ever even hear the definition of parasite or host, but the HOST is what the PARASITE LIVES ON . aka it means the parisite takes everything it needs from the host.
What relationship exist between flea on cat's fur?
The relationship between a flea and cat's fur is that of parasite and host. The flea is a parasite that feeds on the blood of the host.
What is the relationship between a parasite and a host?
a parasite feeds from the host. sometimes making the host die.
