FOOD MICROBIOLOGY
MICROORGANISMS IN FOOD
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Question
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An interaction in which one organism kills another for food.
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Symbiosis
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Predation
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Competition
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None of the above
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -In predation, one organism kills and consumes another. Predation provides energy to prolong the life and promote the reproduction of the organism that does the killing, the predator, to the detriment of the organism being consumed, the prey.
Detailed explanation-2: -Predation is a biological interaction where one organism, the predator, kills and eats another organism, its prey. It is one of a family of common feeding behaviours that includes parasitism and micropredation (which usually do not kill the host) and parasitoidism (which always does, eventually).
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