Commensal relationships may involve one organism using another for transportation (phoresy) or for housing (inquilinism), or it may also involve one organism using something another created, after its death (metabiosis). Examples of metabiosis are hermit crabs using gastropod shells to protect their bodies and spiders building their webs on plants. COUNT 3
QSN1 What is the term for a relationship where one organism provides a dwelling for the other? ANS1 inquilinism QSN2 What type of relationship is it when arachnids attach webs to dead plants? ANS2 metabiosis QSN3 In what type of relationship does an organism travel by means of another? ANS3 phoresy