MCQ
What is common for Cuscuta, ticks and leeches?
- AThey are all autotrophs
- BThey are all plants
- CThey are all parasites
- DThey are all animals
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Answer
- They are all parasites
Explanation:
Cuscuta, ticks, and leeches show the parasitic mode of nutrition.
Cuscuta winds around plants and penetrates into the host stems via, haustoria, forming direct connections to the vascular bundles of their hosts to withdraw water, carbohydrates, and other solutes.
Ticks are large mites with leathery skin and in general, ticks are parasites of animals.
All of them feed on vertebrate blood.
Leeches are either predators (feeding on a variety of invertebrates) or blood-suckers (feeding on the blood of vertebrates).
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