What type of symbiotic relationship exists between plants and mycorrhizal fungi?
Correct Answer: Mutualistic
- Step 1: Understand what symbiotic relationships are. These are interactions between two different organisms where at least one benefits.
- Step 2: Identify the two organisms in this relationship: plants and mycorrhizal fungi.
- Step 3: Learn what mycorrhizal fungi do. They help plants absorb water and nutrients from the soil.
- Step 4: Discover what plants provide to mycorrhizal fungi. Plants give fungi sugars and other organic compounds they produce through photosynthesis.
- Step 5: Conclude that since both plants and fungi benefit from this relationship, it is called a mutualistic relationship.
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