Parasite

parasite
a plant or animal living organism at the organism's expense
Source: Noland, George B. 1983. General Biology, 11th Edition. St. Louis, MO. C. V. Mosby ...
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Parasites that live in the blood or the interstitial fluid that bathes cells are at risk of being destroyed by antibodies directed against them.
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Parasites that live inside the body of the host are called endoparasites (e.g., hookworms that live in the host gut) and those that live on the outside are called ectoparasites (e.g., mosquitos).
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Parasite ecology and population genetics
The study of parasites can reveal information about their relationship with the host (eg. influences on mortality rate) and relationships between different populations of host species.
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parasites Organisms that live in, with, or on another organism. The parasites bene?t from the association without contributing to the host, usually they cause some harm to the host.
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parasite
(par-uh-site) [Gk. para, beside, akin to + sitos, food]
An organism that absorbs nutrients from the body fluids of living hosts.
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Parasite. An organism living on or in, and negatively affecting, another organism
Particulate organic matter. Particulate material in the sea derived from the decomposition of the nonmineral constituents of living organisms ...
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parasite An organism that lives in or on another organism, deriving nourishment at the expense of its host, usually without killing it.
parasitic Denoting an association where one living organism benefits at the expense of another.
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parasite -- n. An organism that lives on or within a host (another organism); it obtains nutrients from the host without benefiting or killing (although it may damage) the host; parasitic- adj.; parasitism- n.
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parasites: Plants or animals that live off another creature (or even inside it), obtaining food and protection without offering any benefit in return.
paternity: Identification of the father of a child.
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parasites: organisms that attack living things and cause disease.
parasitism: a type of symbiosis in which one population benefits while the other is harmed.
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Parasite: An organism that lives in or on another organism (the host) during some portion of its life cycle.
Parasitoid: An animal that feeds in or on another living animal, consuming all or most of its tissues and eventually killing it.
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parasite. An organism that derives its food from the body of another organism, the host, without killing the host directly; ...
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parasite
An organism that absorbs nutrients from the body fluids of living hosts.
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Some parasites evade host immune responses by altering their surace antigens by DNA rearrangements.
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Some parasites can pick up genetic material from one organism and carry it to the next. This has been observed in fruit flies in the wild.
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These parasite species actually get injected when the mosquito is feeding on the blood-the sporozoite form is released by the mosquito's saliva during that process. It's actually called Sporozoa at that stage.
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the study of parasites and their relationships. The University of Aberystwyth has a parasitology group.
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Parasitoid a parasite that eats its host's tissues eventually killing it
(para = beside near; sitio = food; -oid = like form) ...
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A small, infectious, obligate intracellular parasite. The virus genome is composed of either DNA or RNA. Within an appropriate host cell, the viral genome is replicated and uses cellular systems to direct the synthesis of other viral components.
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viruses - obligate intracellular parasites that require the host cell's biochemical machinery to drive protein synthesis and metabolize sugars.
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T Phages: A phage which infects Escherichia coli. Viral parasites of this type are labeled T1 through T7. T2 was the first phage observed under the electron microscope.
Thymine: A nitrogenous base. Pairs with adenine in DNA molecules.
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These domains reflect whether cells have nuclei or not as well as differences in cell exteriors. There is also a series of intracellular "parasites" that are progressively less alive in terms of being metabolically active: ...
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: Joint evolution of two unrelated species that have a close ecological relationship resulting in reciprocal adaptations as happens between host and parasite, and plant and insect.
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An adjective, agreeing in case and gender with the genus: Allium sativum.
A noun or adjective in the genitive. This is common in parasites: Xenos vesparum, Anaticola phoenicopteri.
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virus An obbligate intracellular parasite. A particle composed of a nucleic acid-protein complex that infects an intact host cell and uses that host cell's machinery for its replication. Can contain either a DNA or RNA genome.
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Additionally, such peptidases are essential for several pathogenic parasites and bacteria.
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Parasite: A plant without chlorophyll that obtains its nutrients by tapping into the branches, ...
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