Determine relationships of living organisms - AP Biology

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Which of the given choices is an example of a mutualistic relationship?

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Mutualistic relationships exist when both organisms benefit from a shared relationship. In the correct answer choice, plants provide energy to the fungi through carbohydrates and the fungi provides nitrogenous compounds to the plant.

Human blood vessel and S. mansoni is a parasitic relationship, as the worm is actually damaging to the host. Cat and mouse is a predatory relationship. The barnacle and mollusk shell is commensalism, with the barnacle benefitting and no effect occurring on the mollusk shell.

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