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A lichen is not a bacterium. However, certain photosynthetic bacteria can become part of a lichen.

Lichens are a symbiotic relationship between a fungus and a photosynthetic organism, usually a green alga but sometimes a cyanobacterium.

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What is an organism that consists of a fungus and either algae or anisotropic bacteria that live together in a dualistic relationship?

lichen


What does fungus and green alga or blue-green bacteria create?

Combined, they form the symbiotic organism called "lichen".


What consists of the mutualistic relationship of a fungus or either algae or autotrophic bacteria?

LichensA lichen (LIE kuhn) is a combination of a fungus and an alga that grow together. The alga actually lives inside the protective walls of the fungus. The resulting organism is different from either organism growing alone. The lichen is a result of a mutualistic relationship. But the merging of the two organisms to form a lichen is so complete that scientists give lichens their own scientific names.Shortened answer: Lichen


How is a lichen different from a plant or animal?

A lichen is not a single organism; it is a stable symbiotic association between a fungus and algae and/or cyan bacteria. Symbiotic means any two life form that can only exist with the two life forms are together. There are many examples of this in the plant world, where a plant only have one pollinator and the pollinator only feeds on that plant. Like all fungi, lichen fungi require carbon as a food source; this is provided by their symbiotic algae and/or cyan bacteria, that are photosynthetic. The lichen symbiosis is thought to be a mutualism, since both the fungi and the photosynthetic partners, called photobionts, benefit.


What is an example of a lichen?

An example of a lichen is the reindeer lichen found in arctic and subarctic regions. This lichen forms a symbiotic relationship between a fungus and an alga, growing on rocks, soil, or tree branches. Reindeer lichen is an important food source for animals like reindeer and caribou.


Are lichen eukaryotic or prokaryotic?

A lichen is eukaryotic.


What is a antonym for lichen?

an antonym for lichen is swampy.


What is a sentence for lichen?

There is a lot of lichen growing on the trees.


What does lichen eat what does lichen eat?

They survive on presence of pollutants, more the pollutant more the lichen and vice versa.


What are some example of symbiolit relationship?

Lichen, a combination of an alga and a fungus. The fungus, although taking food from the alga, protects it from drying out, allowing lichens to grow outside of water. The fungus also breaks down the rocks that the lichen grows on, providing minerals and nutrients to the alga. The bacteria that live inside the gut of termites allows them to eat wood. The bacteria break down the otherwise indigestible wood cellulose into sugars that the termites can digest, and the termites provide a home for the bacteria.


Is lichen a producer of the taiga?

No lichen is not a producer because it is a decomposer?


When was Bai Lichen born?

Bai Lichen was born in 1941.