A tapeworm lives inside a person, eating all the nutrients before they can be absorbed by the person’s body. Which type of relationship does a tapeworm have with a person?
Tapeworms do not have a digestive tract. Instead, they absorb their nutrients from the gut contents of the host directly through their outside surface, tegument.
Parasitism is a type of relationship where one of the organisms benefits but the other is harmed. The tapeworm gains nourishment, while the human loses nutrients.
