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Symbiotic Relationships
Symbiosis
• Relationships between organisms in a community.
• Include both beneficial & harmful relationships
Commensalism
– One species benefits, other not harmed• Barnacle living on whale’s back• Birds & grazing animals • Clown fish and Manta Ray
Mutualism
– Two species live together & both benefit• Tiny fish living within larger fish mouth• Stinging ants & bull’s horn acacias
Parasitism
– One organism lives on or inside another organism & harms it. It needs a host to survive. • Leech • Lice• Tapeworm
Predator and Prey
• Prey – food source• Predator - hunts the prey
Inter Specific Competition
• Is a form of competition in which individuals of Different species compete for the same resource in an ecosystem
• Example: Food
Intra Specific Competition
• Form of competition in which members of the SAME species vie for the same resource in an ecosystem
• Example: food, light, mates
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