Parasitic and Mutualistic Relationships
- Created by: Caitlin Ward
- Created on: 20-04-14 13:42
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- Parasitic and Mutualistic Relationships
- Mutualism
- Both organisms benefit in the relationship
- Cleaner species - oxpeckers and buffalo
- The oxpeckers eat pests on the buffalo
- This provides the oxpecker with a food source
- The oxpeckers alerts the buffalo of any predators around by 'hissing'
- The oxpeckers eat pests on the buffalo
- Plants are pollinated by insects
- The plants are able to reproduce
- The insects get a sip of nectar
- Parasites
- Live of a host
- Takes what they need to survive without giving anything back
- Often harms the host
- Tapeworms absorb nutrients from its hosts causing malnutrition
- Fleas cause bites on animals to get what they need
- Live of a host
- Some organism depend on others to survive
- Its abundance is influenced on the distribution and abundance of the other species
- Mutualism
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