Intro

Question 1

Predator-prey symbiosis

Answer 1

One symbiont benefits at the expense of the other

Question 2

Phoresis symbiosis

Answer 2

Smaller symbiont is mechanically carried about by the larger symbiont

Question 3

Mutualism

Answer 3

Both symbionts benefit

Question 4

Commensalism

Answer 4

One symbiont benefits and the other neither benefits nor is harmed

Question 5

Parasitism

Answer 5

One symbiont (parasite) lives in or on the other symbiont (host), deriving nutrition and/or protection from the host at some point in its life, and provides no benefit to the host

Question 6

Ectoparasite

Answer 6

• Lives on the body of the host
• Transmission of disease-causing organisms
• Agents of disease

Question 7

Endoparasite

Answer 7

Lives within the body of the host

Question 8

Aberrant (erratic) parasite

Answer 8

Parasite moves from its usual site of infection into a location it ordinarily does not live

Question 9

Incidental parasite

Answer 9

Parasite occurs in a host in which it does not usually live

Question 10

Facultative parasite

Answer 10

Organism that is normally nonparasitic becomes parasitic under certain circumstances

Question 11

Obligatory parasite

Answer 11

Organism that must lead a parasitic existence

Question 12

Periodic parasites

Answer 12

Organism that makes frequent, short visits to obtain nourishment

Question 13

Pseudoparasite

Answer 13

Organism that is not a parasite but is mistaken for one

Question 14

Insects

Answer 14

• Three body segments: head, thorax, abdomen
• Adults six legs
• May/may not have antennae
• May/may not have wings

Question 15

Acarines

Answer 15

• One or two body segments
• Adults eight legs
• No antennae
• No wings

Question 16

Symbiosis

Answer 16

Any association, temporary or permanent, between at least two living organisms of different species