science friends: do you have a favorite form of endosymbiosis?
looking for a cool example of an invertebrate in longterm partnership (helpful or harmful) with another species it lives inside, or that lives inside it 🧪
looking for a cool example of an invertebrate in longterm partnership (helpful or harmful) with another species it lives inside, or that lives inside it 🧪
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It’s quite a pretty symbiotic relationship too! The squid are like the kawaii squid of the oceans very cute indeed.
Acacia trees that make houses for ants, who defend them are also neat!
Mitochondria were free-living bacteria and endosymbiotic theory says an ancestral eukaryotic cell engulfed these bacteria, but instead of digesting them, it formed a symbiotic relationship with them.