Which of These Scenarios Represents an Example of Habitat Mutualism

question 39

Multiple Choice

Which of these scenarios represents an example of habitat mutualism?

• A) Bees travel among flowers, obtaining nectar and pollinating the plants.
• B) Ants protect treehoppers from predators and receive honeydew as food.
• C) Clownfish live among sea anemone tentacles and protect them from predators.
• D) Mycorrhizae provide plants with phosphorus; plants provide microrrhizae with carbohydrates.

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Definitions:

Sample Evidence

Data or material obtained from a select group out of a larger population, used to infer or make generalizations about the population.

Standard Deviation

It quantifies the variability or dispersion across a set of data points by calculating the average distance from the mean for each data point.

Variance

A statistical measure of the spread of a set of scores, calculating the average of the squared differences from the mean.

Sample Variance

A measure of the dispersion of a set of data points in a sample population, calculated by taking the mean of squared deviations from the sample mean.