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Epiphytes however, can generally be categorized into holo-epiphytes or hemi-epiphytes. A holo-epiphyte is a plant that spends its whole life cycle without contact with the ground and a hemi-epiphyte is a plant that spends only half of its life without the ground before the roots can reach or make contact with the ground. [8]
Hemi-epiphytes (Pseudo-lianas) Eb Plants that germinate and root on other plants (these include dead standing plants, telegraph poles and wires, stumps and such like) Epiphytes; Cc Free-moving water plants (= errants) Errant vascular Hydrophytes; Bb Thallophytes (= non-vascular cryptogams) Fa Plants attached to the ground surface Ga Perennials
Macrophytes perform many ecosystem functions in aquatic ecosystems and provide services to human society. One of the important functions performed by macrophyte is uptake of dissolved nutrients including nitrogen and phosphorus. [39] Macrophytes are widely used in constructed wetlands around the world to remove excess N and P from polluted ...
Whether the relationship between humans and some types of gut flora is commensal or mutualistic is still unanswered. Some biologists argue that any close interaction between two organisms is unlikely to be completely neutral for either party, and that relationships identified as commensal are likely mutualistic or parasitic in a subtle way that ...
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Buffon saw similarities between some regions which led him to believe that at one point continents were connected and then water separated them and caused differences in species. His hypotheses were described in his work, the 36 volume Histoire Naturelle, générale et particulière , in which he argued that varying geographical regions would ...
The term "homology" was first used in biology by the anatomist Richard Owen in 1843 when studying the similarities of vertebrate fins and limbs, defining it as the "same organ in different animals under every variety of form and function", [6] and contrasting it with the matching term "analogy" which he used to describe different structures ...