PARASITES

EXAMPLES

• Fleas
• Tapeworms
• Loa loa
• Lice
• Malaria

IMPORTANT FEATURES

• Get their needs from a host.
• Their little teeth to cut out of their host.
• No digestive system.
• Must have infected more then one host to have completed its life.
• Parasites eat their hosts nutrients, food and energy to survive.

WHERE THEY LIVE

• Parasites live in what is called a "host". A host can be any animal.
• Parasites survive because they stay inside a host and take their resources.
• Such as food, and energy the host consumes in.

HAZARDS

• Parasites can make people have bad teeth
• Cause death
• Infection
• Tapeworms can cause abdominal pains swellings, cramps and weight loss.
• Small parasites are more dangerous

HOW IT REPRODUCES

• There are two types of parasites: large and small.
• Large reproduction: these can be seen with a naked eye. It lays it's eggs on the intestinal wall.
• Once they hatch, they feed on our digested food.
• Small reproduction: usually microscope, they function like bacteria by traveling through the bloodstream.
• to any place of the body. These don't lay eggs and like bacteria they duplicate themselves in an asexual way.

BENEFITS

• Parasites can help fight off human allergic reactions
• Some parasites can help decay
• Show how long people have been dead
• Parasites can keep the immune system occupied, since it is so used to fighting off parasites,
• If there was none it would fight off the wrong thing.

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