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Standard VII
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Parasitic and Saprophytic Nutrition
What are para...
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What are parasites?
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A parasite is an organism that lives on or in a host organism and gets its food from or at the expense of its host.
It is dependent on its host for survival - it has to be in the host to live, grow and multiply. A parasite cannot live independently.
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