symbiotic
(adjective)
Of a relationship with mutual benefit between two individuals or organisms.
Examples of symbiotic in the following topics:
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The Legume-Root Nodule Symbiosis
- Legumes have a symbiotic relationship with bacteria called rhizobia, which create ammonia from atmospheric nitrogen and help the plant.
- Many legumes have root nodules that provide a home for symbiotic nitrogen-fixing bacteria called rhizobia.
- However, when legume plants encounter low nitrogen conditions and want to form a symbiotic relationship with rhizobia they release flavinoids into the soil.
- The relationship between a host legume and the rhizobia is symbiotic, providing benefits to both participants.
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Mycorrhiza
- A mycorrhiza is a symbiotic association between a fungus and the roots of a vascular plant.
- A mycorrhiza is a symbiotic (generally mutualistic, but occasionally weakly pathogenic) association between a fungus and the roots of a vascular plant.
- Mycorrhizas are present in 92% of plant families studied (80% of species) , with arbuscular mycorrhizas being the ancestral and predominant form and the most prevalent symbiotic association found in the plant kingdom.
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Suppression and Alteration of Microbiota by Antimicrobials
- This is especially a problem when broad-spectrum antimicrobial agents are used, as antimicrobial treatments while helping to clear up pathogenic microbes from the body will often kill symbiotic bacteria.
- The treatment of translocated or pathogenic bacteria may necessitate the use of antibiotics that will kill symbiotic bacteria.
- Sometimes the use of broad-spectrum antimicrobial agents is unavoidable; in these situations, consuming foods such as yogurt which contains beneficial bacteria can replenish the body's symbiotic microbes.
- In extreme cases microbes can be transplanted from a healthy individual to someone with whose symbiotic microbes have been compromised.
- The oblong structures are Escherichia coli (E. coli), a symbiotic bacteria found in the human intestinal system.
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Sea Coral and Sea Anemone Zooxanthellae
- Zooxanthellae refers to a variety of species that form symbiotic relationships with other marine organisms, particularly coral.
- Symbiodinium are colloquially called "zooxanthellae" (or "zoox"), and animals symbiotic with algae in this genus are said to be "zooxanthellate".
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Mutualism vs. Symbiosis
- Symbiotic relationships are categorized by the benefits and physical relationships experienced by each species.
- Parasitism: Parasites are organisms that harm their symbiotic partners.
- Endosymbiosis: a relationship in which one of the symbiotic species lives inside the tissue the other.
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The Rumen and Ruminant Animals
- Thus ruminants depend on the symbiotic microbes in their guts to break down cellulose for digestion.
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The Energetics of Chemolithotrophy
- Macrofauna and lithotrophs can form symbiotic relationships, in which case the lithotrophs are called "prokaryotic symbionts".
- Macrofauna and lithotrophs can form symbiotic relationships, in which case the lithotrophs are called "prokaryotic symbionts".
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Anaerobiosis and N2 Fixation
- Many rhizobia, nitrogen fixing bacteria, live in a symbiotic relationship with plants known as legumes.
- Leghemoglobin is produced by legumes in response to the roots being infected by rhizobia, as part of the symbiotic interaction between the plant and these nitrogen-fixing bacterium.
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Squid-Aliivibrio Symbiosis
- A special category of symbiotic relationships involve bioluminescence, where light producing bacteria are hosted by another organism.
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Colonization and Growth
- They thus have a symbiotic relationship with the host, preventing infection and speeding wound healing.
- They thus have a symbiotic relationship with the host, preventing infection and speeding wound healing.