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Symbiosis. Populations that live in close physical contact with each other interact in a variety of ways. What kinds of relationships?. Transfer of energy or food. Protection transportation support. Types of relationships.
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Populations that live in close physical contact with each other interact in a variety of ways.
What kinds of relationships? • Transfer of energy or food. • Protection • transportation • support.
Types of relationships • There are three major types of symbiotic relationships. They are classified according to how one species is affected by the other.
Commensalism • one organism benefits while the other organism is unaffected
Commensalism • An example of commensalism is the relationship between trees and flowers called orchids.
Commensalism • a whale transports attached barnacles throughout the ocean. The whales are not affected by the bamacles.
Mutualism • both organisms benefit
Mutualism • Lichen - alga and fungus. • Together these organisms live as one. • The alga supplies the fungus with sugar, other nutrients, and water. • The fungus protects the alga from intense sunlight and temperature extremes.
Mutualism Butterfly fish Clown fish protect anemones from butterfly fish, while the anemones poison protects clownfish
Mutualism • Ants and aphids • Ants protect and shelter aphid eggs. • Aphids provide food inn the form of liquid nectar for the ants.
Parasitism • one organism benefits and the other is harmed
Parasitism • A parasite uses its host as a source of food. • Usually the parasite does not kill its host. • However, the parasite may weaken or sicken the host.
Parasitism • Some parasites live outside the body of the host. • Fleas, ticks, lice, and mites are examples of external parasites.
Parasitism • Many parasitic bacteria cause disease. Tuberculosis, for example, is a respiratory disease caused by parasitic bacteria.