How does a parasitism different from symbiosis?

Answer 1

Parasitism involves one organism (parasite) living off of another (host) in a harmful manner but without killing the host. Predation involves one organism (predator) killing another (prey) for food.

Answer 2

Parasitism is not different from symbiosis.

It is a type of symbiosis.

It is when one species is living at the expense of the other. To qualify as a parasite, the organism must be living on or in another organism for the most of its life cycle, derives its food from the host and more or less bring about harm to the host.

An example would be tapeworm in human, which attaches itself to the small intestine of the human digestive system and derives its food from the human.

Answer 3

In predation, one organism kills and consumes another. In parasitism, the parasite, consumes nutrients from another organism, its host, resulting in a decrease in fitness to the host, and not necessarily death.

Answer 4

Parasitism is a type of symbiotic relationship where one organism benefits at the expense of the other, the host. In symbiosis, both organisms involved benefit in some way, whether it's mutualistic (both benefit), commensalistic (one benefits, the other is unaffected), or parasitic (one benefits, the other is harmed).

Answer 5

Symbiosis is generally beneficial to both organisms, whereas parasitism is generally detrimental to the host organism.

Answer 6

Parasitism is when one organism benifits but the other is harmed.

cammensalism is when one organism benifits and the other is neither helped nor harmed.