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Question

What is a symbiotic relationship that involves an organism depending on another organism or and organism dependent on its environment that shows interdependence? Also with an issue/problem with the relationship, for example, wolves were taken out of an area and the deer began to overpopulate and began to eat all the shrubbery. The the ecosystem is unbalanced. The environment depends on the wolf to balance the deer population so there is still some greenery and the wolves depend on the environment as its shelter and for food. This was an example given to me but I can't use it.

Answer 1

Coyotes balance the rabbit population. This helps the amount vegetation stay balanced.  And the coyotes do depend on the environment on shelter and food.

Answer 2

Lichens. A fungus enters into a symbiotic relationship with some photosynthetic organisms such as green algae or cyanobacteria. It depends of course on sunlight, well, at at least one of the partners does, the fungus depends on the cellulose material it consume (an organism being a part of the natural environment). You could say if one didn&#039;t have the other, what would happen? I&#039;ll let you read up more on lichens at that link so you can decide how you want to approach this assignment.