HORTICULTURE

Detailed explanation-1: -A parasite is an organism that lives in or on a host. It derives food and nutrients from the host. Parasites harm the host. Leech is an example of a parasite.

Detailed explanation-2: -Parasitic mode of nutrition is where an organism (parasite) lives on the body surface or inside the body of another type of organism (host). The parasite obtains nutrition directly from the body of the host and in turn harm the host.

Detailed explanation-3: -Heterotrophs (hetero = other) don’t make their own food, instead ingesting nutrients from other organisms. Parasitic plants usually attach to a host plant, getting nutrients from the host plant, instead of making their own food through photosynthesis.