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Which of the following scenarios is representative of parasitism?

ATapeworms living in a mammal’s intestinal tract
BRemora fish attaching themselves to sharks
CBirds feeding on insects stirred up by grazing animals
DBirds eating scraps of food from a crocodile’s teeth

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A because tapeworms are harmful organisms that slowly take the nutrients away from its host, in this case the mammal, which is considered a parasitism relationship.

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The correct answer would be a. Tapeworms living in a mammal’s intestinal tract.

Parasitism refers to the relationship between two organisms or species in which one organism lives in or on the body of the other.

The organism which lives on the body of the other is termed as the parasite while the other organism is termed as the host.

The parasites derive their nutrition from the host but they do not kill their host at once.

Examples may include tapeworm, hookworm, Plasmodium, flukes, fleas et cetera.

The tapeworm are the flat segmented flatworm that live as parasite in the intestine of the mammals. They derive their nutrition from the partly digested food of the host. It deprived the host of nutrients.

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