Essay On Tapeworms

By definition, a parasite is an organism that lives in or on another organism (its host) and benefits by deriving nutrients at the host’s expense. This relationship will always negatively impact the host and benefit the parasite, but the host is vital for the parasite to stay alive. An example of a parasitic relationship is when a tick latches onto a cat. This form of parasitism is external and the tick sucks on the cat, fostering due to the grace of the cat’s oblivion, and because of this exchange, the cat has a lowered blood supply in a specific area and the tick utilizes the nutrients from the cat to stay alive. Until this foreign organism is removed, the parasite will feast on the host. A common parasite that is found is effects a host internally is tapeworms. Tapeworms and other internal parasites breach through the outside of a host and will then attack its internal organs and its organ systems. It will still pull nutrients from the host but it will be on a much more immediate
There are many species of tapeworms, all of which target different organisms and those tapeworms even are evolved to target certain organs. Some tapeworms will host in flies and will not only use its host for its nutrients but also utilize it as a transporter to dogs or cats. A common sign that your dog or cat has tapeworms is that they are walking around and dragging their rear on the ground in order to cease the discomfort in their abdomen. Also dogs and cats who are infected by tapeworms are going to have white seed like spots in their scat which in fact are tapeworms that were just drug out of the intestines when digesting food. Other organisms that can be effects by tapeworms are cattle, sheep, goats, pigs, horses, poultry, and if the meat from an organism that was infected is ingested by a human, they will retain the disease. Needless to say, tapeworms can effect a