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Plant-Animal Mutualism (7 Cards)

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Explain pollination syndrome.
- correlated suite of floral traits evolved in response to a particular type of pollinator. Typically, diffuse coevolution between groups of plants and animals.
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Define diaspore. What is the cost and benefit?
= Any part of an organism capable of dispersing, give rise to new individual.
Cost: use of resources, risk of predation, not encountering better environment

Benefit: might encounter more favorable environment.
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Define mutualism.
Interaction between 2 species that benefit both
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Define coevolution
Continual, reciprocal evolutionary change in traits of 2 species, owing to their interactions with each other
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Author: zeestree
Main topic: Biology
Topic: Mutualism
School / Univ.: University of Hawaii at Manoa
City: Honolulu
Published: 28.04.2010
Tags: plants, angiosperms, mutualism
 
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