Biology 2010 Student Edition

Published by Prentice Hall
ISBN 10: 9780133669510
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Chapter 4, Ecosystems and Communities - Assessment - 4.3 Succession - Understand Key Concepts/Think Critically - Page 124: 14

Answer

d.

Work Step by Step

Option a. is incorrect. Commensalism is a relationship between two species in which one benefits and the other is neither harmed nor does it benefit from the relationship. Option b. is incorrect. Competition occurs when species try to obtain a limiting resource and may fight one another to gain that resource. Option c. is incorrect. Parasitism is a relationship between two species in which one benefits and the other is harmed during the interaction. Option d. is correct. When a devastating change occurs in an area, succession occurs in that area where organisms successively colonize that area over time.
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