STEM Dictionary

Lab Sciences:

Parasite

Pathogen

Peptide

Periodic table

Phenotype

Phloem

Photosynthesis

Pigment

Pipette

Plasma

Platelets

Pollen

Polyacrylamide

Polymer

Polypeptide

Precipitate

Protein

Proton

Parasite

Definition

a kind of organism that lives on or in another organism to steal its nutrients

Sentence

Many tropical diseases like malaria are caused by parasites.

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