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Published on: August 21, 2026
Which one of the following is categorized as a parasite in true sense ?
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A true parasite lives on or inside a host organism for a significant part of its life cycle and depends on it for both shelter and nutrition. Female mosquitoes are not true parasites because they only visit the host briefly for a blood meal to produce eggs and do not live on the human body
The human fetus is not a parasite because it is the same species as the mother, and the cuckoo represents brood parasitism, which is a specialized behavioral relationship
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