How does brood parasitism harm the hosts and benefit the parasite?

Q: pest infestation in animals

A: The presence of an unusually large number of insects or animals in a place, typically so as to cause…

Q: What is the difference between parasites and parasitoids?

A: The question here is asking about the differences between a parasite and parasitoids . These both…

Q: What are vectors ofparasites?

A: The most common vectors of the parasites are mosquito and ticks. mosquito transmit infection like…

Q: What prevents other bacteria from colonizing the dead insectand competing with the nematode and…

A: E.coli is a gram-negative bacteria that is a facultative anaerobe (microbes that can even survive in…

Q: The __________host is where the larva develops, and the ___________host is where the adults produce…

A: In many animals including helminthes, there are three stages of life cycle namely the egg, the…

Q: Explain what it means to be an obligate intracellular parasite.Name three groups of obligate…

A: Step 1 Intracellular pathogens are organisms that can grow and reproduce inside host cells. It…

Q: How has an understanding of crown gall disease benefitedplant agriculture?

A: Agrobacterium tumefaciens is a rod-shaped gram-negative bacteria that leads to a type of…

Q: Diff erentiate among the arthropod vectors of disease.

A: Arthropods are the organisms belonging to the phylum Arthropoda in the animal kingdom. It means…

Q: How does self infection bytapeworms occur?

A: Tapeworms are parasites that live in intestine of infected person. It has a tape like shape hence…

Q: What is obligate parasite?

A: A Parasite that cannot complete its life cycle without exploiting the host is called an obligate…

Q: How does the parasite affect the host in a way that it hastens the progress of its life cycle

A: Introduction: The life cycle of all parasites is divided into three stages: growth, reproduction,…

Q: What is the extent of damage of the black sigatoka disease to the banana industry in the…

A: Black sigatoka or black leaf streak disease is an important foliar disease in banana caused by a…

Q: pregnant women as the parasite can cross the placenta to the fetus

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Q: Why are termites essential members of communities in nature? How do they alter habitats?

A: Termites are eusocial insects, which are believed to have evolved from cockroaches. They are also…

Q: Name the pests that lady bird & dragon flies help to get rid off respectively?

A: A pest is an organism, which causes damage to crops, plants, and animals by feeding and living on…

Q: What factors stabilize the presence of a secondary insectsymbiont?

A: Secondary Symbionts are transferred from mother to off-springs vertically and therefore the…

Q: How does the schistosomiasis parasite cause bladder cancer

A: The Schistosomiasis parasite (Schistosoma haematobium) which is usually present in water of middle…

Q: Does EBV have a parasitic relationship with its host since it infects the host?

A: Parasitism is a type of interspecific relationship in which one, the parasite, is benefitted while…

Q: What are the insect vector, the natural host reservoir, and thetreatment for plague?

A: Plague is a type of infectious disease which is caused by Yersinia pestis bacterium. Generally the…

Q: What general type of multicellular parasite is composed primarily ofthin sacs of reproductive…

A: The general type of multicellular parasite which is composed of primarily of thin sacs of…

Q: Compare and contrast horizontal versus vertical transmission of a parasite.

A: A parasite is an organism that lives on another organism (host) and obtains all nutrients needed for…

Q: what is the only known coccidial parasite that does not have intermediate hosts?

A: An organism that harbors the parasites with nourishment and space (as shelter) is considered a host.…

Q: Distinguish between intermediate hosts and definitive hosts.

A: A host is an organism which gives space for a parasite to live in its body or on its outer surface.…

Q: How Parasites change their host’s behavior?

A: Parasitism is a type of interaction in which one partner is benefitted and the other is harmed due…

Q: Does Ascaris lumbricoidespresent an intermediate host?

A: Ascari lumbricoids   it is an intestinal roundworm (Nematode) which lives in human intestine. And…

Q: With the help of a well – labelled diagram, Describe the life cycle of malarial parasite.

A: Malaria is a disease caused by the protozoan parasite called Plasmodium. It is a unicellular…

Q: Liver flukes reach sexual maturity in the bile duct of the intermediate host. definitive (final)…

A: Platyhelminthes are flatworms having many classes of triploblastic and are acoelomate flatworms that…

Q: How does the parasite affect the host in a way that it hastens the progress of its life cycle?…

A: Parasite is an organism that inhabits the host and obtains its nutrition from it. It may be either…

Q: How is ornithosis transmitted?

A: The causative agent is Chlamydia psittaci. It is a Gram negative bacterium. It is a nonmotile,…

Q: Explain what it means to be an obligate intracellular parasite.

A: Parasites are those organisms that live in the body of another organism and derive its food from the…

Q: Which parasitic diseases could conceivably be spread bycontaminated blood and needles?

A: Micro-organisms are such small living organisms that are less than 0.1 mm, and can be seen only…

Q: Is there a common evolutionary pathway between host and parasite?

A: Introduction  Microbes are not only pathogenic to humans but they are beneficial for Humans too.…

Q: Spalangia endius is a parasitoid, explain their life cycle and how they parasitize their host and…

A: Spalangia endius is also known as Fly parasitioid.It belongs to the order Hymenoptera and family…

Q: What are the more important worm infestations? What are their manifestations?

A: Intestinal infection is caused by parasites of intestine like worms. These worms feed off host's…

Q: Which diseases are zoonoses? Name them and the major vector involved.

A: Vectors are living creatures capable of transmitting infectious illnesses from people to humans or…

Q: Do parasite-host systems tend to be host-specialist or generalist? Explain.

A: Parasites are organism that cannot survive on it's own. It lives on hosts. Hosts supports the…

Q: provide example of a parasite that develop a life cycle involving an intermediate hosts? explain…

A: Introduction: A living thing is referred to as a host when it provides food and shelter for…

Q: How the parasite transmit from mother to baby through birth canal?

A: Parasites are the microorganisms like -viruses, bacteria that invades the host body and causes…

Q: dentify corpse flower and Genus species? What is parasitizes? Any special adaptations?

A: A flower is the reproductive structure of an angiosperm. They give a seemingly unlimited variety of…

Q: What are parasites?

A: An organism is any individual entity that embodies the properties of life. Organisms can be…

Q: provide example of a parasite that  develop a life cycle involving an intermediate hosts? explain

A: Introduction  An organism that is infected by or consumed by a parasitic or pathogenic organism is…

Q: Explain how metamorphosis influences parasitism?

A: Parasites are naturally shed from the host during metamorphosis resulting in uninfected adult hosts.…

Q: Describe the relationship between arthropod vectors and theparasites they carry.

A: The phylum Arthropoda consists of millions of species, which acts as biological vectors for causing…

Q: Describe the term gregarious pest-locusta?

A: Introduction: Locust is a term derived from Vulgar Latin word locusta which means grasshopper. It is…

Q: What are worm infections?

A: Parasites are the infectious agents which belong to multicellular organisms and some are…

Parasitic infections

A parasite is an organism that lives in the body of another organism and obtains food at the expense of the host. There are two kinds of parasites they are internal and external. An internal parasite lives inside another organism and is known as endoparasite. An external parasite lives on the body surface of the host and is known as an ectoparasite.