PARASITIC NUTRITION

Feeding by living in an organism Or

On organism

DEFINITIONParasitic nutrition is the mode of

heterotrophic nutrition in which an organism { called PARASITE } lives on the body or inside the body of another organism { called HOST }

The parasite gets its nutrition from the host organism.

PARASITIC PLANT

i. It takes readymade food from the host plant.

ii. The plants on which it climbs for food is called HOST.

EXAMPLESI. CUSCUTA

II. It does not contain chlorophyll. it takes readymade food from the plant on which it is climbing.

DODDER -

DODDER Dodder is parasitic on a very wide

variety of plants , including a number of agricultural and horticultural crop species.

MADE BY - PIYUSH BHATIA CLASS - VII B ROLL NO – 35