Parasitic nutrition
Integrated Science · Grade 9 · about 40 minutes
Living at the expense of a host: the parasite gains and the host loses.
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- 9 sections of explanation, worked examples and diagrams
- 1 practice task with hints and worked answers
- A quiz that marks itself as you go
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- Holozoic nutrition
- Parasitic nutrition
- Saprophytic nutrition
- Symbiosis
- Incisors and canines
- Premolars and molars
- The structure of a tooth
- Homodont and heterodont dentition
- Carnivore dentition
- Herbivore dentition
- Omnivore dentition
- Ingestion and the mouth
- Digestion in the stomach and small intestine
- Absorption and assimilation
- Egestion, and the whole journey