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Science Project

There once was a group of friends who always hung out. They were in all of the same classes at school. One day, in science class they were working on a project. The teacher was talking about Symbolic Relationships. She told them to figure out what relationships each person in the group was. 

“Well this will be so easy!” Fred said, Fred is a California seal.

“I don’t think will be so easy, Fred,” Cindy the sea lamprey said.

“Yah, I barely understand what we’re doing,” Murphy the mushroom said.

“If you think this will be so easy, you should do the whole project for us, Fred,” Shelly the moneran said.

“No, we are all going to work together on this. Let’s figure out what relationship Cindy is first,” Fred said.

“Well I’m a sea lamprey, and I attach on to animals and eat them,” Cindy said.

“That kinda sounds like Parasitism, where two organisms are together and only one organism benefits from the other, and the other is harmed or killed,” Murphy said.

“Yah I think your right, Murphy,” Shelly said.

“Ok, I think we have that part done!” Fred said.

“Yah, ok, who’s next, Murphy?” Cindy asked.

“Well, I’m a mushroom. And moss grows around me but I don’t really care,” Murphy explained.

“Isn’t that Commensalism?” Shelly questioned.

“Yah it is Shelly," Fre

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">d verified.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">“Good job Murphy and Shelly! We’re one step closer thanks to you guys!” Cindy said.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">“Great! Shall we move on? Shelly, I believe you’re next,” Murphy said.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">“Well I’m a mo

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">neran, and I produce food for plants and I eat other bacteria on plants,” Shelly explained.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">“That’s Mutualism, I’m sure of it,” Fred said.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">“Ok Fred, whatever you say!” Cindy said.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">“Almost done now, one more,” Murphy said.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">“Yup, only Fred left,” Shelly said.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">“Ok, well I’m a seal and

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> I eat fish, that sounds like Predator/Prey,” Fred said.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">“Yah where a predator eats the prey,” Cindy confirmed.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">“Sweet we are all done,” Murphy said.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">“All we have to do is put it on the poster, and turn it in!” Shelly said.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> So the friends turned the project in. When the teacher had graded it and given it back to the kids, they got a 100% on it! They were all very excited and lived happily ever after on the Ocean Shore.



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