Question

Animals like mice, lizards and cockroaches share their habitat with human dwelling. They are
(a) Inquilines
(b) Cultigens
(c) Transplants
(d) Humus
(e) Pelagic

Answer 1

This is a close interaction between individuals of different species which can be harmful or beneficial. This is a special type of commensalism where one animal lives in the home or digestive tract of other organisms.

Complete answer step by step:
- Inquiline is a Latin word which means tenant.
- Inquilines two organisms that live together either temporarily or for a longer time. In this type of interaction, at least one of the organisms benefits from the relationship.
- In this type of interaction the organism like mice, lizard and cockroach lives in the burrow or dwelling place with the human.
Examples:
Wyeomyia smithi, Metriocnemus knabi and Habrotrocha rosa live in the pitcher of Sarracenia purpurea.
Gall wasps deposit their eggs in the blackberry or oak tree.
- Inquilines is symbiosis type of interaction, where symbiosis is divided into three types:
Mutualism: In this type of interaction both organisms is benefited
Commensalism: In this type of interaction one organism benefits and one organism is unaffected.
Parasitism: In this type of interaction one organism benefits and one organism is harmed.
So, the correct answer is, ‘inquilines.’

Note:
- Example:
Mutualism- moray eel with cleaner fish, antelope with oxbird
Commensalism- cattle with cattle egrets, clownfish with anemone
Parasitism- acacia plant with ant galls, taenia worm in the human eye
- Interactionism is a theoretical position assuming that the individual is not only influenced by their environment, but that other organism is influenced by their environment. Example: mice, lizards and cockroaches living under humans which are the source of many diseases in humans.