Symbiosis Flashcard

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Which of the following is an example of competition?

• A honeybee getting food from flowers and spreading pollen
• A coyote and a vulture fighting to eat a dead rabbit
• A bear fishing for salmon in the river
• A clownfish attracting predators to a sea anemone, but has resistance to anemone's stings

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A coyote and a vulture fighting to eat a dead rabbit

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Example of new soil creation during primary succession by the relationship between algae and fungi (forming lichen).

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Mutualism

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Which of the following is NOT an example of parasitism?

• A flea sucks blood from a dog, which causes weight loss, vomiting, and diarrhea
• Barnacles attach themselves to whales, who are unharmed, and are transported to plankton rich areas
• A tapeworm stays in the intestines of humans and absorbs food. In some cases, people may experience nausea, weight loss, and loss of appetite
• A fungus, Ophiocordyceps, feeds on the ant and eventually sends signals for the ant to plant itself upon a high branch to infect more ants.

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Barnacles attach themselves to whales, who are unharmed, and are transported to plankton rich areas

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A symbiotic relationship that benefits both members of two different species.

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Mutualism

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Egrets feed in fields among cattle. The egrets get easy access to the insects that are stirred up by the cattle, and the cattle do not care if the egrets are there or not. What type of symbiosis is this relationship?

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commensalism

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What type of symbiosis is it when oxpeckers eat ticks, flies, and other insects from cattle and other grazing mammals, providing nourishment to the oxpecker and pest control to the animal?

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mutualism

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The struggle between organisms to survive as they attempt to use the same resource

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Competition

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An organism that makes its own food is a/an __________.

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producer

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An animal that gets energy by eating plants or by eating other animals that eat plants is a/an __________.

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consumer

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Ecology is the study of the _________________ of organisms with the environment.

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relationships