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Adaptations for a parasite would mean not spending energy on functions such as digesting food for instance so that they can divert their energy to growing and reproducing. They don't even have a proper digestive system, instead they absorb the already digested food through their skin.
Other than that, since they live in an environment that will be immunologically hostile to them (inside a host's intestines), they have their own defences.
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∙ 13y agothe adaptation is living on other animals
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∙ 15y agobecause if the tapworm did not adapted it could not lay it eggs
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∙ 12y agoBecause they are parasitic, they do not need a digestive system. Their host does it all for them so nutrients can be absorbed directly through the body walls.
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Their morphological adaptations to parasitism include the absence of a gut, head and light sensing organs and a unique surface (tegument) able to withstand host-stomach acid and bile, yet penetrable enough to absorb nutrients.
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What is a long parasitic flatworm called?
It could be a tapeworm.
What is the symbiosis relationship between a moose and a tapeworm?
Parasitic.
What symbiotic relationship does liver tapeworm and caribou have?
Parasitic.
What is the relationship with a dog and a tapeworm?
A parasitic one. The host is harmed, the invader benefits.
A tapeworm is found in a young's man's intestines. The tapeworm feeds from the food ingested by the man and deprives him of nutrients. What relationship does this represent?
parasitic relationship
What are the examples of cestodes?
Cestoda, or cestodes, is a class of parasitic flatworm. Examples of cestodes include: Taenia solium, (pork tapeworm), Diphyllobothrium (fish tapeworm), and Taenia saginata (beef tapeworm).
What Parasitic creature starts with E?
Echinococcosis - tapeworm Echinococcus granulosus, Echinococcus multilocularis
What parasitic forms can be seen in the feces of a patient with hookworm and Cryptosporidiosis and Tapeworm and Trichinosis?
eggs
What parasitic infections are most common?
Common parasitic infestations include amebiasis, malaria, giardiasis, hookworm, pinworm, threadworm, whipworm and tapeworm infestations.
What branch of biology is the tapeworm?
They belong in the Phylum Platyhelminthes (free living and parasitic flatworms)of the KingdomAnimalia. Within that phylum, they're classified in the parasitic Class Cestoda.
What domain is a tapeworm in?
The tapeworm is in kingdom Animalia
Is pain associated with an parasitic infection?
In some cases but not all. For instance, pinworms and tapeworm infestation are not painful at all.
