1 / 6

What Is Symbiosis?

What Is Symbiosis?. By: April and Katlyn. Symbiosis is a close and long-term association between two or even more species. . Different Types of Symbiosis. Parasitism… A symbiotic association in which one organism benefits and the other is harmed. Mutualism...

pekelo
Download Presentation

What Is Symbiosis?

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. What Is Symbiosis? By: April and Katlyn Symbiosis is a close and long-term association between two or even more species.

  2. Different Types of Symbiosis Parasitism… A symbiotic association in which one organism benefits and the other is harmed. Mutualism... A symbiotic relationship in which both organisms benefit. Commensalism… A symbiotic relationship in which one organism benefits and the other is unaffected.

  3. Example of Mutualism • One example of mutualism is an ant, a butterfly caterpillar, and an acacia. The acacia feeds the butterfly caterpillar. The butterfly caterpillar has nectar organs that the ant eats from. The acacia gets protection from the ant. The ant, Butterfly caterpillar, and the acacia

  4. Example of Commensalism • One example of commensalism is a whale and barnacle. The barnacle gets on the whale and gets to ride on it as the whale swims. The whale is unaffected.

  5. Example of Parasitism One example of parasitism is a dog and flea. The dog gets bit by the flea and the flea gets blood.

  6. Citations • Slide 1/Title Page: Panda background, Clip Art, October 4, 2007 Slide 2: Ant, butterfly caterpillar, flower, facstaff.bloomu.edu/ccorbin/mutualismexamples.ppt, October 8, 2007 Slide 3: Ant, caterpillar butterfly, and acacia, facstaff.bloomu.edu/ccorbin/mutualismexamples.ppt, October 8, 2007 Slide 4: Barnacle, http://www.mov.vic.gov.au/crust/mov902i.html, October 8, 2007 Whale, http://www.clayoquotwhales.ca/2006-photos.htm, October 8, 2007 Slide 5: Dog, Clip Art, October 8, 2007 Flea, Clip Art, October 8, 2007

More Related