Both. Ticks are essentially parasites and can have bacteria that may affect a deer's health. Too many ticks can also harm a deer.
Ticks are NOT symbiotic organisms, they are parasites.
a tick benefits and the deer is harmed
no it is parasitism
no it is parasitism
A deer tick sucks blood from the deers back.
a deer
The deer tick's genus is Ixodes; its species is I. scapularis.
Mutualism
a tick sucking the lions blood.
it is a deer tick
They don't live together intentionally, but because deer do take refuge under trees and in brush, and ticks live in trees and brush, they're thrust together just like humans are...Because deer tick suck the deers blood. The deer is the deer ticks' host.
deer tick
deer tick is the type of tick that buries in the skin.
The symbiosis relationship of a deer and a tick is parasitism. The deer is the harmed host and the tick is harming the host.