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What do you mean by parasitic nutrition?


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Parasitic nutrition:

  1. It is a type of heterotrophic nutrition.
  2. It is a type of nutrition in which organisms live on or inside the bodies of their hosts and feed on them.
  3. The parasite is the organism that obtains the food, and the host is the organism from which the food is taken.
  4. Example - lice on humans and ticks on dogs

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