SYMBIOTIC RELATIONSHIPS
- Mutualism- In this image there are clown fish hiding in an anemone. This is a mutualistic relationship because the anemone gets the left over food from the clownfish and the clownfish gets protection.
- Algae provides oxygen and sugar for the coral and the coral provide carbon dioxide and waste products for the algae.
- Mutualism is when two organisms benefit from each other
- Parasitism- This image shows the life cycle of a trematode. A trematode is a parasitic worm that lives in pretty much every bird, fish, and turtle in the Great Barrier Reef. If it's in a snail, the snail reproduces parasites instead of snails.
- Myxozoa are another family of parasites who live mainly in the muscles, brain, and gall bladder of it's host.
- Parasitism is when a parasite hurts an animal internally affecting what ever it gets on or into because sometimes it's like a skin parasite.
- Commensalism- In this image it shows a type of sea anemone which is home to the anemone crab but the sea anemone gets nothing.
- Another commensalism relationship is Glass shrimp, which are almost completely see through, will attach to the chocolate chip sea star and take on its coloration. This helps the shrimp camouflage itself so it is not eaten by predators."
- Commensalism is when one organism gets food or shelter or anything else but the other organism is not affected.