Question

A burdock is a weed. The seed heads of the weed are burrs with hooked tips. These tips catch on cows, deer, or even people as they pass by. The burrs are dropped or brushed off in different places. What symbiotic relation is this?

Answer 1

Answer:

COMMENSALISM

Explanation:

The interaction of organisms with one another in an ecosystem is called SYMBIOSIS, if it involves two organisms of same or different species. One type of symbiotic relationship is COMMENSALISM, which is a relationship in which one organism benefits while the other neither benefits or gets harmed.

This is the case of the burdock weed and its association with cows, deers or people. The burdock weed benefits from the relationship by getting Its seeds that attaches to the cow's, deer's or human's skin via its hooked-tip burrs, transported to varying locations. Thus, helping to spread the plant. The cow, deer, or human does not benefit fron this relationship neither is it harmed.