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Directions: For the questions that follow, determine the type of relationship (mutualism, parasitism or commensalism) being described, and briefly explain your reasoning.
1. Wasp larvae can grow inside a type of caterpillar known as the Tomato Hornworm. The caterpillars are eventually killed when the larvae eat through and rupture its organs and skin as they exit its body.________________________________________
2. Barnacles are small sea creatures which filter plankton and other microspic organisms from the water for food. Barnacles often attack themselves using a type of natural glue to larger animals such as whales and sea turtles, which inadvertently carry the barnacles to new sources of food when they move. Their “glue” is harmless.
Directions: For the questions that follow, determine the type of relationship (mutualism, parasitism or commensalism) being described, and briefly explain your reasoning.
1. Wasp larvae can grow inside a type of caterpillar known as the Tomato Hornworm. The caterpillars are eventually killed when the larvae eat through and rupture its organs and skin as they exit its body.________________________________________
2. Barnacles are small sea creatures which filter plankton and other microspic organisms from the water for food. Barnacles often attack themselves using a type of natural glue to larger animals such as whales and sea turtles, which inadvertently carry the barnacles to new sources of food when they move. Their “glue” is harmless.
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1.parasitism because the larvae just fed on the caterpillars.
2. mutualism becausebarnacles filter microscopic organisms for food so other sea animals can eat them like sea turtles and whales which carry the barnacles to other places when they move. its like give and take relationship