Gause’s principle of competitive exclusion states that
no two species can occupy the same niche indefinitely for the same limiting resources
larger organisms exclude smaller ones through competition
more abundant species will exclude the less abundant species through competition
competition for the same resources exclude species having different food preferences.
A female fig wasp enters the syconium of a fig, pollinates the flowers and lays eggs in the ovaries of some of the flowers. The young larvae grow up, eat (and kill) some, but not all of the seeds and complete their life cycle.
The fig is completely dependent on fig wasps to pollinate its flowers and the fig wasp requires figs to complete its life cycle
The interaction between figs and fig wasps has aspects of
$I.$ mutualism
$II.$ host-parasite interaction
$III.$ competition
$IV.$ ammensalism
$V.$ protocooperation
Select the correct option
Match the column $I$ and $II$
Column - $I$ | Column - $II$ |
$(a)$ Parasitism | $(i)$ $++$ |
$(b)$ Commensalism | $(ii)$ $+-$ |
$(c)$ Amensalism | $(iii)$ $0+$ |
$(d)$ Mutualism | $(iv)$ $0-$ |
Mycorrhiza, a relationship between fungi and roots of higher plants is
What is the interaction between two species called ?
Epiphyte is an example of