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📅 NSB MS 2012🎓 MS🔄 Round 8#️⃣ Question 19❓ TOSS-UP📝 Multiple Choice

Cyamids, commonly known as whale lice, are tiny crustaceans that live on the skin of whales. Cyamids obtain nutrition from the whale by feeding on dead skin and algae that grow on the whale's body; it is believed that whales are not helped or harmed by their presence. This type of biological relationship can best be described as which of the following?

W) Commensalism
X) Antagonism
Y) Parasitism
Z) Mutualism
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