It is advantageous because when it kills the host, it cannot grow or feed off of it anymore. They might leave a host, and go to a stronger one with more resources.Ê
If a parasite kills its host too quickly, it also kills itself as it cannot live without the host. The parasite must at least leave the host alive until it has reproduced and had a chance for its offspring to find other hosts.
If a parasite kills its host too quickly, it also kills itself as it cannot live without the host. The parasite must at least leave the host alive until it has reproduced and had a chance for its offspring to find other hosts.
No, the rock is not alive. Both host and parasite must be alive.
None. If it was advantageous to the host in any way, no matter how minor, it would be considered a symbiont not a parasite.
The parasite keeps the host alive because the host is its source of everything. If the host dies, the parasite dies.
No. A parasite feeds on its hos while keeping it alive, which is not the case with a shrimp eating algae.
A biotroph is a parasite which cannot survive in a dead host and therefore keeps it alive.
It harms a parasite to have its host die because the host is what the parasite depends on. If the host dies then the parasite will have nothing to depend on and die.
A parasite lives on another organism (host) at the expense of the host. The host is being harmed while the parasite is benefiting.
Host. Host.
The host provides shelter or food or even protection for a parasite. The parasite uses the host for food, etc.
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).