Symbiotic Relationships: Parasitism

Parasitism:

-What is it? It's a symbiotic relationship where an organism lives in/on another organism called the host, and this organism harms the host.

The parasite's goal is to live in the other organism as long as they can without killing it, if the host is dead, the parasite will end up dying too.

There are many examples of parasitism everywhere, a simple example is a tick and a dog, the tick attaches to the dog and sucks the dog's blood, so the tick benefits from the dog, while the dog can be harmed by transmission of many diseases.

This symbiotic relationship differs from the predator-prey relationship, in parasitism, the goal is not to kill the host, and they can last for days, weeks, months, and even years, but in the predator-prey relationship one organism kills another organism in order to survive, that's the biggest difference.

Santiago Hernandez

23 Examples of Parasitism in Humans and Animals. https://www.lifepersona.com/23-examples-of-parasitism-in-humans-and-animals.