Mutualism with Ants: There are costs and benefits to a plant that provides housing but no food for the ants compared to a plant that provides housing and food. What is a cost to the plant that does not provide food?

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Mutualism with Ants:
There are costs and benefits to a plant that provides housing but no food for the ants compared to
a plant that provides housing and food. What is a cost to the plant that does not provide food?
A cost is that the plants not providing food would need to grow taller to reduce herbivory.
The cost to the plant that does not make food for the ants is the energy saved by not having to make food.
The plant may also gain resources as a carbon sources will be brought to it by the ants which would be a cost
to the plant.
If food is not provided to the ants they will need to go off of the plant to forage for food reducing the plants
defenses.
The ants will starve and not be able to defend the plant.
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Transcribed Image Text:Mutualism with Ants: There are costs and benefits to a plant that provides housing but no food for the ants compared to a plant that provides housing and food. What is a cost to the plant that does not provide food? A cost is that the plants not providing food would need to grow taller to reduce herbivory. The cost to the plant that does not make food for the ants is the energy saved by not having to make food. The plant may also gain resources as a carbon sources will be brought to it by the ants which would be a cost to the plant. If food is not provided to the ants they will need to go off of the plant to forage for food reducing the plants defenses. The ants will starve and not be able to defend the plant. Week 9 Pre-lab.pdf AY9_Week9_ng....xlsx A 10.7591 978150 Lab 9 A....pdf A MacBook Air
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