LIFE SCIENCE

OBJECTIVE LIFE SCIENCE

ANIMAL PHYSIOLOGY

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
The mode of nutrition of leech is
A
Sucking
B
Piercing and Sucking
C
Absorption through surface of body
D
None of the above
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Leech is a blood-sucking ectoparasite. Hence mode of nutrition is parasitic and sanguivorous.

Detailed explanation-2: -Parasitic nutrition when any organism derives or in dependent on other organism for their food causing less to that organism are called parasites and nutrition made is parasitic nutrition. Leech depend as animals for blood as their foods causing blood loss to the animals; thus it is a parasite.

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