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When ants get food from plants and protect the plants from being eaten, what kind of relationship do these two species have? Plzzzz help!!!

a) mutualistic

b) parasitic

c) commensalistic

d) harmful

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Myrmecophytes, otherwise known as ant-plants, share a mutualistic relationship with a colony of ants. This is when two organisms of different species each benefit from the activity of the other. There are over 100 different genera of myrmecophytes that can be found across the world's tropical regions

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