Parasitism
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parasitism-181-16786537
title:
Parasitism
text:
Parasitism is a close relationship between species, where one organism, the parasite, lives on or inside another organism, the host, causing it some harm, and is adapted structurally to this way of life. The entomologist E. O. Wilson characterised parasites as "predators that eat prey in units of less than one". Parasites include single-celled protozoans such as the agents of malaria, sleeping sickness, and amoebic dysentery; animals such as hookworms, lice, mosquitoes, and vampire bats; fungi s
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wiki
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description:
Relationship between species where one organism lives on or in another organism, causing it harm
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parasitism
date created:
2002-03-11T19:39:33Z
date modified:
2024-09-06T04:48:00Z
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