Define "Parasitic nutrition" Give one example of each type. - Vidyadip

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Define "Parasitic nutrition" Give one example of each type.

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Parasitic nutrition: It is that nutrition in which an organism derives its food from the body of another living organism (called its host) without killing it.
Example: Plasmodium and round worms obtain food by parasitic nutrition.

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