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The relationship between acacia trees and the ants that live on them is an example of?
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∙ 9y ago
Parasitism
Paul Wyman
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∙ 9y agoThe relationship between the ants that live in the thorns of acacia trees is an example of symbiosis. The ants defend the tree from other insects and animals, and in return, the tree supplies the ants with food.
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∙ 11y agoNot really commensalism.
It certainly is symbiosis (by more than one definition), but it is more specifically mutualism: where both partners in the symbiosis benefit.
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∙ 8y agoIt is mutualism because both organisms benefit from their relationship. The tree gains protection from the ants and the ants gain a safe home from the tree.
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∙ 14y agothe ants eat and climb up it
cute panda
they both work
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∙ 11y agoMutualism
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