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An association between two individuals or populations where both benefit and neither can survive without the other is


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competition

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commensalism

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mutualism

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Amensalism

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Solution

The correct option is C

mutualism


Mutualism is the association that is mutually beneficial for both the organisms and the relationship is crucial for the existence of their species. For eg. bees and flowers, without the bees plants do not have pollinators for propagation of their species and without flowers the bees do not have sustenance. Competition unlike mutualism is a relationship that is harmful for both the species involved. Commensalism on the other hand is a relationship that is beneficial to one organism while the other is unaffected; for eg. the sea anemone and the clown fish. Ammensalism unlike commensalism harms one of the partners in the relationship while the other is unaffected, for eg. antibiotics produced by some fungi that kills the bacteria.

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