A sloth is a tree-dwelling animal that lives in the jungle of Central and South
America. It's diet mainly consists of leaves and insects. Sloths have a greenish
shaggy coat that contains grooves where two types of blue green algae live. This
provides the sloth with greenish coat that camouflages it from its predators and
enables the photosynthetic algae to get closer to the sun since the sloth lives up
in the trees. Identify the type of relationship shared by the sloth and the algae.
Mutualism
Commensalism
Parasitism
Competition
Predation

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Answer:

Mutualism

Explanation:

Sloth and algae share a mutual relationship, as the sloth has somewhere to grow and live. While in return, the sloths get extra camoflauge from the green algae to hide from predators. Algae and Sloths symbiotic relationship is Mutualsim relationship, meaning they both benefit from the relationship.

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This is mutualism because both the sloth and algae are benefiting from each other

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