What is the parasitic adaptation of tapeworm?

Answer 1

Adaptations for a parasite would mean not spending energy on functions such as digesting food for instance so that they can divert their energy to growing and reproducing. They don't even have a proper digestive system, instead they absorb the already digested food through their skin.

Other than that, since they live in an environment that will be immunologically hostile to them (inside a host's intestines), they have their own defences.

Answer 2

the adaptation is living on other animals

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Answer 3

because if the tapworm did not adapted it could not lay it eggs

Answer 4

Because they are parasitic, they do not need a digestive system. Their host does it all for them so nutrients can be absorbed directly through the body walls.

Answer 5

Their morphological adaptations to parasitism include the absence of a gut, head and light sensing organs and a unique surface (tegument) able to withstand host-stomach acid and bile, yet penetrable enough to absorb nutrients.