The parasitic stage refers to the phase in the life cycle of a parasite during which it lives and feeds on a host organism, deriving nutrients at the host's expense. This stage often involves the parasite's adaptation to the host's environment, allowing it to survive and reproduce. Parasitic stages can vary widely among different types of parasites, including protozoa, helminths, and ectoparasites, and may involve complex interactions with the host's immune system.
The correct spelling is "parasitic."
Infective stage is the life cycle stage where parasite able to initiate an infection in a definitive or intermediate host. Diagnostic stage is the life cycle stage leaving the definitive host, it is the stage that links the parasitic way of life with either the free-living phase of the life cycle or the phase of development that occurs in an intermediate host.
a free-swimming larval stage in which a parasitic fluke passes from an intermediate host (typically a snail) to another intermediate host or to the final vertebrate host
No, sponges are not parasitic.
parasitic
yes, they are parasitic
Sponges are not parasitic. Where as polyps.
Antihelminthics are the drugs that kill parasitic worms.
The Final Stage of a parasitic life-cycle is the stage in which it reproduces sexually. So, in the Fluke's life-cycle, the cow or human host where the larval forms grow into sexually mature adults and reproduce.
the parasites which complete their life cycles in one host
No, they aren't said to be parasitic.
As of yet, there is no known species of parasitic echinoderms.