Holt Modern Biology 1st Edition by John Postlethwait ,Janet Hopson

Exercise 18

DIRECTONS: Choose the letter of the answer choice that best answers the question or completes the sentence. A certain tropical tree has a fruit that is eaten by only one species of bats. As the bat digests the fruit, the seeds are made ready to sprout. When the bat excretes the wastes of the fruit, it drops seeds in new locations. Which of the following is the correct term for the relationship between the bat and the tree?
A) predation
B) mutualism
C) competition
D) commensalism