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BookmarkA parasite is an organism that spends a significant portion of its life in or on the living tissue of a host organism and which causes harm to the host without immediately killing it.
Parasites also commonly show highly specialized adaptations allowing them to exploit host resources..
For more information about the topic Parasitism, read the full article at Wikipedia.org, or see the following related articles:
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