what does parisitism mean?

Answer 1

Ask my brother.

1. The characteristic behavior or mode of existence of a parasite or parasitic population.
2. Parasitosis.

Answer 2

Did you meen parasitism? If so, it has 4 definitions:
"1. Biology. a relation between organisms in which one lives as a parasite on another.
2. a parasitic mode of life or existence.
3. Pathology. a diseased condition due to parasites.
4. (in some totalitarian countries) a. unemployment or refusal to work.
b. employment in work considered nonessential by the state."

Answer 3

It means an organism living off another organism(called the host) in which the first organism is a parasite to the host and causes harm to the host to its advantage. Kinda like a flea living off a dog

Answer 4

Parasitism is when one organism lives off of another to the others detriment. One example is Spanish moss which lives in oak trees in the South. Eventually it kills the host (oak tree).

Answer 5

first of all LOL Donkthecong..it means something or someone lives off of another living organism, to the parasite's benefit and the hosts loss (the parasite would be organism that is doing harm, the host is the one that harm is being done to)

Answer 6

Diseases caused by parasites and protozoa in humans.It means the act of infection from these parasites.

Answer 7

Para-site is a Greek word meaning that you feed on an others body,coming from the word PARA ((ΠΑΡΑ) which in this case means not directly,and SITOS(ΣΙΤΟΣ) which means wheat,and in this case means food

Answer 8

I know,if look in a dictionary under P.

Answer 9

to live off another being; or a host

Answer 10

live off of something else.