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    Question

    An organism feeding on multiple hosts in its lifetime is

    called-
    A Parasitoid Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    B Parasite Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    C Saprophyte Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    D Predator Correct Answer Incorrect Answer

    Solution

    Predators: • Like parasites, predators are organisms that acquire food by killing other organisms. • Predators have these important characteristics:  One predator eats multiple preys during the predator's lifetime.  Predators tend to be bigger than their prey.  Predators tend to kill their prey.  The prey is the organism which the predator eats. • Some examples of predator and prey are lion and zebra, bear and fish,

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