Question

A bee feeds off the nectar of a sunflower. while feeding pollen from the sunflower clings to the legs and body of the bee. When the bee lands on a different sunflower the pollen is left behind and new pollen picked up. Determine the type of relationship (mutualism,parasitism,commensalism,predation or competition) and explain?​

Answer 1

Answer:

mutualism

Explanation:

Mutualism is defined as an interaction between individuals of different species that results in positive (beneficial) effects on per capita reproduction and/or survival of the interacting populations.

Answer 2

Answer:

The type of relationship is Mutualism.

Explanation:

• Mutualism is one of the biological cum ecological interactions found in nature. Organisms most often use such a mutualistic relationship to benefit from one another in several ways for example in transportation, food, shelter, growth, and reproduction.

• In this relationship between the bees and the sunflowers, the bees need nectar from nectar glands to make honey which is their chief food source.

• So the bees roam from flower to flower collecting pollen which they store in a pouch in their abdomen or on their hind legs depending on the species.
• When the bees move on from one flower to the next, some of the pollen brushes off and pollinates the new flower.

• Since both parties i.e. the bees and the sunflowers draw benefits from this symbiotic relationship means both are mutually beneficial to each other.

Hence this type of relationship is referred to as mutualism, also spelt as symbiosis.

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