Q: Parasites usually harm their hosts (or they wouldn't be parasites), but what do they usually stop short of doing?


Read this paragraph and choose the correct option from the provided answers:

Some parasites kill their host, but most do not. It’s easy to see why. If a parasite kills its host, the parasite may also die. Instead, parasites usually cause relatively minor damage to their host.

 Choices:

- benefiting their hosts

- reproducing with hosts

- mutating their hosts

- killing their host


A:
killing their host