Monday, March 19, 2007

Abiotic, biotic, mutualism, Comensulism, Paracitism, Tigers and Bears oh My.

First of all i would like to clear up the definitions of all of the above wards noted in the title. Abiotic means the physical and chemical aspects of an organism’s environment or not containing or supporting life. Biotic basically is the aposite of abiotic in that it reflects organism's that contain or support life. Mutualism is an interaction between two or more species where both species derive benefit. An example of this is such as monkeys living in trees. They both benifit from each other in that the trees provide nutrience for the monkeys and the monkeys eat the seeds off the trees and replant and furtilize the seeds in their poop. Comensulism is where one benifits without hurting the other such as a flower growing in or on a tree. Parasitism is just like it sounds. parasites like leaches or ticks in which literaly suck the life out of you. tigers and bears well that was just a catchy fraze just ignore it! ok well basically that is it!
ps spelling is bad just ignore. spell check does not work in word or here! Arg

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