Symbiosis vs. Mutualism

Symbiosisnoun

A relationship of mutual benefit, especially among different species.

Symbiosisnoun

(ecology) A close, prolonged association between two or more organisms of different species that normally benefits both members. An interspecies cooperation.

Symbiosisnoun

(biology) A close, prolonged association between two or more organisms of different species, regardless of benefit to the members.

Symbiosisnoun

(possibly obsolete) The state of people living together in a community.

Symbiosisnoun

The living together in more or less imitative association or even close union of two dissimilar organisms. In a broad sense the term includes parasitism, or antagonistic symbiosis or antipathetic symbiosis, in which the association is disadvantageous or destructive to one of the organisms, but ordinarily it is used of cases where the association is advantageous, or often necessary, to one or both, and not harmful to either. When there is bodily union (in extreme cases so close that the two form practically a single body, as in the union of algæ and fungi to form lichens, and in the inclusion of algæ in radiolarians) it is called conjunctive symbiosis; if there is no actual union of the organisms (as in the association of ants with myrmecophytes), disjunctive symbiosis.

Symbiosisnoun

the relation between two different species of organisms that are interdependent; each gains benefits from the other

Symbiosis

Symbiosis (from Greek συμβίωσις, symbíōsis, , from σύν, sýn, , and βίωσις, bíōsis, ) is any type of a close and long-term biological interaction between two different biological organisms, be it mutualistic, commensalistic, or parasitic. The organisms, each termed a symbiont, must be of different species.

Mutualismnoun

(ecology) Any interaction between two species that benefits both; typically involves the exchange of substances or services.

Mutualismnoun

An economic theory and anarchist school of thought that advocates a society where each person might possess a means of production, either individually or collectively, with trade representing equivalent amounts of labor in the free market.

Mutualismnoun

The doctrine of mutual dependence as the condition of individual and social welfare.

Mutualismnoun

the relation between two different species of organisms that are interdependent; each gains benefits from the other