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Download Solution PDFThe interspecies interaction that has a favourable influence on the participating species' per capita reproduction and/or survivability is called:
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Download Solution PDFThe correct answer is mutualism.
Key Points
- Mutualism is an association in which both species are benefitted.
- It is referred to as the interspecific interaction in which both the interacting species are benefited.
- Algae and fungi remain in a close association where the fungus helps in the absorption of nutrients and provides protection while algae or cyanobacterium prepares the food. This association is called ''lichen''. Both species are benefited here thus it is an example of mutualism.
- Interspecific interactions are the interactions of the population of two different species.
- These interactions may be Positive, Negative, or Neutral.
- Positive interaction:
- Both species are benefited.
- For example- Mutualism, Protocooperation.
- Negative interaction:
- One species is harmed.
- For example- Ammensalism, Parasitism, and predation.
- Neutral interaction:
- Neither species benefits nor suffers.
- For example- Lactobacillus and Streptococcus.
Additional Information
- Symbiosis is any type of close and long-term biological interaction between two biological organisms of different species,
- In biology, Adaptation is the dynamic evolutionary process of natural habitat that fits organisms to their environment, enhancing their evolutionary fitness.
- Parasitism is a close compatibility between species, where one organism, the parasite, lives on or inside another organism.
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