Parasitic Symbiosis Examples

Following are the examples of parasitic symbiosis:

Fasciola hepatica

This is also known as Liver fluke. It attaches itself onto the liver and makes way to the tissue and bile.

Plasmodium

There are different species of Plasmodium that are picked up by the mosquitoes and transmitted to different people causing Malaria.

Hirudinea

Leeches usually depend on different animals to complete their life cycle. The animals that leeches depend upon include, freshwater fish, slugs, snails, mice bear, etc.

Taenia solium

It can live in the human gastrointestinal tract for years. It spreads through under-cooked pork. These are more than three meters long.


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