SYMBIOTIC RELATIONSHIPS

DEFINITIONS

• A sybiotic relationship is a close, long term relationship between teo species that usally invloves an exchange of food or energy. There are 3 types of symbiotic relationships; mutualism, commensalism, and parasitism.

COMMENSALISM

• Commensalism is a symbiotic relationship that benifits on species but does not harm or benifit the other.

PARASITISM

• Parasitism is a symbiotic relationship that benifits one species and harms the other.

MUTUALISM

• A symbiotic relationship in which both partnersbenefit.

HARD CORAL AND ZOOXANTHELLAE

HARD CORAL AND THE ZOOXANTHELLAE

• They have a mutual symbiotic relationship which a a symbiotic relationship in which both organisms benifit
• In the ocean obove 300 ft and tempatures above 68 degrees F is where their habitat is
• The hard coral provides shelter for the zooxanthellae

HARD CORAL AND THE ZOOXANTHELLAE

• The zooxanthellae uses photsynthesis to make food and energy for its self.
• The hard coral gets its energy by using the energy made by the zooxanthellae.
• The hard coral provides shelter for the zooxanthellae.

THE SEA ANEMONE AND THE CLOWN FISH

THE SEA ANEMONE AND THE CLOWN FISH

• The relationship they have is mutualism which is a symbiotic relationship in which both organisms benefit.
• They are found in the Pacific ocean, the Red sea, the Indian ocean, and Austalia's Great Barrier Reef

THE SEA ANEMOME AND THE CLOWN FISH

• The sea anemone gets it energy by using its tentacles to sting, kill, and then eat its victim
• The clown fish eats the sea anemone's dead tentacles and its leftovers
• The clown fish cleans the sea anemone's tentacles

THE SEA ANEMONE AND THE CLOWN FISH

• The clown fish helps the sea anemone by luring other fish to the anemone
• The anemone provides a shelter for the clown fish
• The sea anemone protects the clown fish from predators

THE SEA ANEMONE AND THE CLOWN FISH

• Fun fact: In Disney's Finding Nemo, Nemo was a clown fish and lived in a sea anemone

LACTOBACILLUS AND HUMANS

LACTOBACILLUS AND HUMANS

• The symbiotic relationship they have commensalism in which one organism benifits but it does not harm or benefit the other organism which in this case is the lactobacillus
• Lactobacillus is found in the lower reproductive, digestive, and urinary tracts

LACTOBACILLUS AND HUMANS

• Lactobacillus makes it own energy and lives within the human
• The human grows and raises its food
• The human provides the lactobacillus a home and is the host. The lactobacillus provides the human with a lack of various infections, healthy pregnancies, lack of diarhea, and ect.

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