ECOLOGY
ORGANISMS AND THE ENVIRONMENT
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predator/prey
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parasite/host
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herbivore/omnivore
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consumer/producer
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Detailed explanation-1: -Once inside the body, the tapeworm head attaches to the inner wall of the intestines and feeds off the food being digested. Pieces of the tapeworm break off and come out of the body in feces (poop), along with the eggs they contain. If this infected poop gets into soil or water, it can infect other people or animals.
Detailed explanation-2: -A tapeworm is a parasite that can live and feed in human intestines. This is called a tapeworm infection. A young and inactive form of the tapeworm is called a larval cyst. It can stay alive in other parts of the body.
Detailed explanation-3: -Tapeworms do not have a digestive tract. Instead, they absorb their nutrients from the gut contents of the host directly through their outside surface, tegument. New proglottids are constantly formed in the neck of the worm and along the length of the tapeworm they mature.
Detailed explanation-4: -That is called parasitism. An example of this is a tapeworm in a human. The tapeworm gains nourishment, while the human loses nutrients. In other symbiotic relationships, one of the organisms benefits and the other is neither helped nor harmed.