14.18: Symbiotic Relationships
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Symbiotic Relationships
- Mutualism: benefits both host and symbiont.
- Example: Anemone and the anemone fish; fish cleans and feeds anemone, stays with anemone for protection – fish can’t be stung (clown fish) (Figure 14.29)
- Commensalisms: no effect on host, benefits symbiont.
- Example: Shark and pilot fish (pilot fish eats leftovers). Or barnacles attached to a humpback whale (Figure 14.30).
- Parasitism: Harms host, benefits symbiont.
- Examples: Parasites in tuna. Humans catching and eating tuna (with parasites).
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| Figure 14.29. Clown fish living in a mutual relationship with a sea anemone. | Figure 14.30. Barnacles attached to a humpback whale. |