There Are Little Birds That Spend a Great Deal of Time

question 10

Multiple Choice

There are little birds that spend a great deal of time on the back of a rhinoceros and eat the blood-sucking ticks out of the rhino's ears.The rhino greatly benefits from the relationship, since it cannot remove the ticks itself.The tick-rhino relationship is an example of ________.

• A)parasitism
• B)mutualism
• C)predator-prey
• D)commensalism

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Definitions:

Cotyledons

Embryonic leaf in seed-bearing plants, the first to appear from a germinating seed.

Ovule

In seed plants, a structure that contains the female gametophyte and has the potential to develop into a seed.

Seed

The reproductive unit of a flowering plant, capable of developing into another such plant.

Botanically

Relating to the scientific study of plants, including their physiology, structure, genetics, ecology, distribution, and classification.