Symbiotic Relationships - Mutualism

The concept of two organisms belonging to different species that live together and benefit from a relationship is a symbiotic relationship. There are different types of Symbiotic relationships: - Commensalisms: - In commensalisms one species of symbiotic relationship benefits while the other is neither helped nor hurt. In this relationship the species which does not gain benefit is totally unaffected, because it does not do anything intentionally to provide the other species with any kind …

…exist of it would have been exposed to such relationships; such relationships keep the cycle of ecology going on. It is true that symbiotic relationships have both negative and positive effects, but that is how the balance of nature is maintained. Works Cited "Symbiosis, Commensalism, and Mutualism". Nearctica. 29 Mar. 2004. <http://www.nearctica.com/ecology/pops/symbiote.htm> "Symbiotic Relationships". NECSI. 29 Mar. 2004 <http://necsi.org/progects/evolution/co-evolution/symbiosis/co-evoluiton_symbiosis.html>