ECOLOGY
SYBIOTIC RELATIONSHIPS
WHAT IS ECOLOGY??
• The study of interactions that take place between organisms and their environment.
• It explains how living organisms affect each other and the world they live in.
Three Types of Symbiotic Relationships
Mutalism
Both benefit
birds get a meal eating bugs off the rhino and the rhino gets a good clean.
birds get a meal eating bugs off the rhino and the rhino gets a good clean.
Commensalism
one benefits and other is neither helped nor harmed
Barnacels and shells get a free ride, whale hardly notices
Barnacels and shells get a free ride, whale hardly notices
Parasitism
one benefits and other is harmed
worms eating at the catapiller harming it
worms eating at the catapiller harming it
Goal is to Understand these relationships among organisms and their way of survival
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