Microbiology with Diseases by Body System (4th Edition)
Microbiology with Diseases by Body System (4th Edition)
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ISBN: 9780321918550
Author: Robert W. Bauman Ph.D.
Publisher: PEARSON
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A lichen is an intimate relationship between a fungus and a photosynthetic microbe in which the fungus delivers water and minerals to its partner while the photosynthetic partner delivers sugar to the fungus. What type of symbiosis is involved?

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Lichens are a mutual venture of fungus and cyanobacteria exists in symbiotic relation with higher organisms like trees and woods. They depend on the host for their food and nutrition and the host get water conduction and supply from the lichens as they are mass storage of water in their cells.

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Lichens are a mutualistic association of a fungus and either an alga or a cyanobacterium in which the fungus slowly engulfs the photosynthetic partner. the phototroph provides inorganic phosphorus to the fungus. the fungus helps collect sunlight for the photosynthetic partner. the fungus protects the photosynthetic partner from erosion.
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