Question
Question: A female fig wasp enters the syconium of a fig, pollinates the flowers, and lays eggs in the ovaries...
A female fig wasp enters the syconium of a fig, pollinates the flowers, and lays eggs in the ovaries of some of the flowers. The young larvae grow up, eat (and kill) some, but not all, of the seeds, and complete their life cycle. The fig is completely dependent of fig wasps to pollinate its flowers, and the fig wasp requires figs to complete its life cycle. The interaction between figs and fig wasps has aspects of
A
Mutualism
B
Competition
C
Predator-prey and host-parasite interaction
D
A and c
Answer
Predator-prey and host-parasite interaction