Question

HELP ITS OVER DUE AND GRADE BOOK ENDS MARCH 5TH
In you own words, describe: (MUST use complete sentences)

1. Mutualism

2. Commensalism

3. Parasitism

B. Type a letter (M, C, P) for each of the following statements that describes the type of symbiosis.

4. a tick living on a dog

5. the honeyguide bird leading the honey badger to the bees hive, both eat the honey

6. a bird building their nest in a tree

7. Head lice living on a human scalp

8. The ants and the acacia tree living together and both receiving benefits

9. Bees and flowers

10. Mistletoe putting its roots into its host tree

Answer 1

Answer:

Mutualism is the doctrine that mutual dependence is necessary to social well-being.

Commensalism is an interaction between two organisms living together in more or less intimate association in a relationship in which one benefits and the other is unaffected.

Parasitism is a symbiotic relationship between species, where one organism, the parasite, lives on or inside another organism, the host, causing it some harm, and is adapted structurally to this way of life. The entomologist E. O. Wilson has characterized parasites as "predators that eat prey in units of less than one"