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| Me pulling on a vine. It came down very easily! |
While my family and I were walking in the rainforest, we wondered whether vines were parasitic or symbiotic. We all needed to know what that meant first. We learned that something that’s parasitic doesn’t help the host, which is the thing it’s living on, but instead takes from it and doesn’t give anything back. Symbiotic is when they both give something to each other.
When I arrived home, I did research on the Internet and found that vines are parasitic. They take the tree’s nutrients and water and they choke the tree. It’s so bad that people cut down the vines so their tree can survive. Though some might say it looks a lot better to have green vines than a brown trunk!
-Kyle Wilson
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