Class 12 Botany simulations · Organisms and Populations

Population interactions

Explore the six kinds of interaction between two species and what each species gains or loses.

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What to notice

In mutualism both gain; in competition both lose; in parasitism and predation one gains at the other’s cost.

Key relation

+ benefit · − harm · 0 unaffected

Try this

Which interaction is described as “+, 0”?

What you can change

• Interaction: choose Mutualism, Competition, Predation, Parasitism, Commensalism, Amensalism

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