Epiphytes are a. fungi that attack plants. b. fungi that form mutualistic associations with roots. c. nonphotosynthetic parasitic plants. d. plants that grow on other plants.

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Hello everyone. And in today's video we have the following problem how to fight differ from parasites. So this problem is very short and sweet. So let's go straight into it. So in order to compare these two groups of organisms are created these tables with characteristics of each. So I want you to recall first of all what an epic fight is from previous videos and amplified is a type of plant that grows from another plant. And if we see answer choices A. And B. These two answer choices are very similar. Answer choice A. Says they do not need a host plant and the answer is B. Says they do not need anything to grow. So both epic fights and parasites actually are going to need these host plan in order to grow from it. Epic fights grow externally from it. And parasites are usually internal organisms that infect host plants and developed from it. And so both of these groups of organisms feed these answer choices so we cannot defer them using them. And moving on we have answer choice D they protect their host against microbial attacks. And this is something very peculiar that we don't think about it very often. But these parasites and these epic fights, they're able to protect their host against microbial attacks attacks using something that we use that we call competition. And what we do what they do is that through competition they're able to fight off another or external attacks of other parasites or other epic fights that may want to infect their host. And so that is how both parasites and Epic fights are able to protect their host. And we can actually cancel this. That as well as not being something that applies to both organisms. We cannot defer using it. And we don't see we have to do not get their nutrients from their host plants. And while parasites as we discussed, they need their host. They feed on their host. As we can see here on the table. They need their host for for food they feed on it. They use the nutrients from their host in order to power their own metabolism. These epic fights are going to be self sufficient. They're going to get their own food and their own resources, their own nutrients so they won't feed on the host plant for further metabolism, further development. So this is how we differ them well amplified their self sufficient are able to get their own nutrients, parasites rely on the host plant for nutrients. And so answer. Choice. C. Is our final answer. So thank you very much for sticking around until the end of this video. I really hope it helped you And I hope to see you on the next one