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What type of relationship does an epiphytic orchid have with its host plant?
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Epiphytic and parasitic plants grow on?
Epiphytic and parasitic plants grow on plants. It helps support the host plant.
What do epiphytic and parastic plants grow on?
Epiphytic plants grow on other plants for support and parasitic plants grow on host plants for support and food both.
What is a science definition symbiotic relationship?
A symbiotic relationship is one that is beneficial to both parties. Lichen is a common example.Another relationship is parasitism, where one member extracts food from the other but offers nothing in return. Mistletoe plants are this category.And a third relationship is epiphytic, where one member takes advantage of position, but takes nothing from the host. Lianes, and perching plants demonstrate this.
What has the author E A Bernays written?
E. A. Bernays has written: 'Some evolutionary aspects of the insect-host plant relationship' 'Host-plant selection by phytophagous insects' -- subject(s): Behavior, Host plants, Insect-plant relationships, Phytophagous insects
What TV Show did wild orchid host?
Great Pretenders
Is a flowering plant and an insect a parasitism?
No, that is the wrong kind of symbiosis. The relationship between a flowering plant and an insect is a mutualistic one, as both of them gain something from the symbiosis. A parasitic relationship is where the parasite harms its host.
Why does the growth of the dodder plant eventually lead to the death of the host plant?
dodder plant can pull nutrients from its host plant and it kills its host plant
Explain parasitism and provide an example of this relationship?
One example of a parasite would be the parasitic plant Cuscuta which is a yellow colored climber plant. It produces special kinds of outgrowths on this stem called haustoria. These haustoria penetrate the tissue of the host plant and connects to the vascular tissue. It then absorbs the required nutrients from the host plant.
Plants that live on other plant are called what?
This just refers to a symbiotic relationship which can be mutual, such as a moray attached to a whale or shark, or they can be parasitic, such as a tapeworm.
Where do parasitic plants grow on?
A parasite lives on or in a host, which it depends on for survival. This relationship can be simply parasitic, where the host does not benefit from the parasite. This relationship may also be symbiotic, in which both the parasite and the host benefit.
What describes the relationship between a parasite and its host in a symbiotic relationship?
Life line a parasite canot exist with out a host.
What is the scientific relationship between dogs and fleas?
It is a parasite - host relationship. The fleas as parasites living off of the dog as a host.
