This is a close association between two different types of organisms in a community:
Here are six examples, take your pick!
Sharks/turtles and ramores (shark suckers). The ramore attaches to the shark/turtle and cleans off parasites - removing pesky parasites for the shark or turtle and getting a meal and a free ride of the shark/turtle
Nitrogen fixing bacteria in the roots of legumes (peas, beans, clover etc). Bacteria fixes Nitrogen from the air and converts it into Nitrates. Bacteria gets a nice place to live and plant gets nitrates to help it grow
An example of mutual symbiosis is the relationship between clownfish of the genus Amphiprion (family, Pomacentridae) that dwell among the tentacles of tropical sea anemones. The territorial fish protects the anemone from anemone-eating fish, and in turn the stinging tentacles of the anemone protect the clownfish from its predators (a special mucus on the clownfish protects it from the stinging tentacles).
Some goby fish species live in symbiosis with a shrimp.Another example is the goby fish, which sometimes lives together with a shrimp. The shrimp digs and cleans up a burrow in the sand in which both the shrimp and the goby fish live. The shrimp is almost blind leaving it vulnerable to predators when above ground. In case of danger the goby fish touches the shrimp with its tail to warn it. When that happens both the shrimp and goby fish quickly retract into the burrow.
A famous land version of symbiosis is the relationship of the Egyptian Plover bird and the crocodile. In this relationship, the bird is well known for preying on parasites that feed on crocodiles which are potentially harmful for the animal. To that end, the crocodile openly invites the bird to hunt on his body, even going so far as to open the jaws to allow the bird to enter the mouth safely to hunt. For the bird's part, this relationship not only is a ready source of food, but a safe one considering that few predator species would dare strike at the bird at such proximity to its host.
One of the most spectacular examples of a symbiosis is between the siboglinid tube worms and symbiotic bacteria that live at hydrothermal vents and cold seeps. This is a mutualistic symbiosis where the worm completely loses its digestive tract and is solely reliant on their internal symbionts for nutrition. The bacteria oxidize either hydrogen sulfide or methane which the host supplies to them. These worms were discovered in the late 1970s at the hydrothermal vents near the Galapagos Islands and have since been found at deep-sea hydrothermal vents and cold seeps in all of the world's oceans.
2007-01-21 13:31:39
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answered by Sparkle 3
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A flea on a cat, a rhino and a tick eating bird sitting on his back, lichen (fungus and an alga), the bacteria inside of a termites body that helps it digest the wood it eats, barnacles on a whale, and a nasty old tapeworm inside someones intestine.
2007-01-21 13:53:53
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answered by michelle 5
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Humans and domesticated animals
Humans and cultivated plants
Humans and intestinal bacteria
2007-01-21 13:32:14
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answered by divi 1
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vibrio fischerii and squid (part of the light organ)
bacterial population of the rumen and cow
clown fish and anemones
2007-01-21 13:29:03
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answered by ALM 6
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