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Some microorganisms can live in the intestines of termites. The termites eat wood, which the microorganisms break down into nutrients. Both the microorganisms and the termites get nutrients from the digested material. What type of symbiosis is this? Explain.

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it is a commensalism symbiosis

where the termites benefits from the wood and the microorganism benefits also and also unaffected

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