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    Mutualism is a symbiotic relationship where both species benefit. Examples include trees and tree frogs, where frogs use trees for protection; birds and fruit trees, where birds disperse seeds in exchange for food; insect pollination, where bees and flowers both benefit from pollen and nectar exchange; and hermit crabs and anemones, where crabs provide shelter and anemones provide protection.

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    Mutualism is a symbiotic relationship where both species benefit. Examples include trees and tree frogs, where frogs use trees for protection; birds and fruit trees, where birds disperse seeds in exchange for food; insect pollination, where bees and flowers both benefit from pollen and nectar exchange; and hermit crabs and anemones, where crabs provide shelter and anemones provide protection.

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    MUTUALISM

    What is Mutualism?
    MUTUALISM IS A
    RELATION BETWEEN
    TWO OR MORE SPECIES IN WHICH ALL
    BENEFIT AND NONE SUFFER. IT IS A
    FORM OF SYMBIOSIS (LIVING TOGETHER).

    What are some


    examples of
    Mutualism?
    3. Insect pollination:

    1. Commensalism: Tree frogs and For example, a bee pollinates a


    leaves flower by collecting nectar from

    various flowers and converting it
    Commensalism is a type of into food. Pollen grains stick to its
    symbiotic relationship in which one hairy body when it settles on a
    species benefits, while the other flower. As a result, when it goes to
    species is neither harmed nor another bloom, it distributes pollen
    helped. Tea frgs use plants as to that flower, increasing plant
    protection. reproduction.

    4. Hermit Crab and Anemone


    2. Facultative mutualism:: Birds and food


    The hermit crab's shell provides a
    Birds eat the fruits that the trees produce. In safe shelter for anemones. In
    exchange, the birds aid in the dispersal of the exchange, the anemone uses its
    seeds, for example, by excreting them in sting to protect the animal from
    locations far from the parent plant. Because predators.
    its offspring may someday compete for space,
    light, and nutrients, this is good to the parent
    plant. 1. "Commensalism Definition, Examples, and Relationships." thoughtco.com.
    houghtco.com/commensalism-definition-and-examples-4114713
    2. "Mutualism Definition." biologyonline.com. biologyonline.com/dictionary/mutualism
    3. William Gillian, Rutherford Jill. "ENVIRONMENTAL SYSTEMS AND
    SOCIETIES 2015 EDITION COURSE COMPANION." Great Britian,
    OXFORD, 2015

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