SPECIES INTERACTION LAB

SPECIES #1

SCIENTIFIC NAME: APIS MELLIFERA

COMMON NAME: HONEYBEE

INTERACTION: COMMENSAL BECAUSE WE GET HONEY FROM THEM.

DOMESTICATED SPECIES: YES

SPECIES #2
SCIENTIFIC NAME: ARACHIS HYPOGAEA

COMMON NAME: PEANUT

INTERACTION: SYMBIOTIC BECAUSE WE PLANT THEM AND COMMENSAL MAYBE BECAUSE WE EAT THEM, PEANUTS ARE USED TO MAKE PEANUT BUTTER

DOMESTICATED SPECIES: YES, WE PLANT THEM

SPECIES #3

SCIENTIFIC NAME: CANIS FAMILARIS
COMMON NAME: DOG

INTERACTION: SYMBIOTIC, WE FEED AND TAKE CARE OF THEM AND THEY PROVIDE COMPANIONSHIP AND SOME A WATCHDOG.
DOMESTICATED SPECIES: YES

SPECIES #4

SCIENTIFIC NAME: PSITTACUS ERITHACUS

COMMON NAME: AFRICAN GREY PARROT

INTERACTION: SYMBIOTIC, I FEED HIM AND GIVE HIM ATTENTION ALL HE DOES IS TALK BACK. HA HA!
DOMESTICATED SPECIES: SOME ARE PETS BUT THERE ARE STILL SOME IN THE WILD

SPECIES #5

SCIENTIFIC NAME: CHRYSEMYS SCRIPTA ELEGAN

COMMON NAME: RED EARED SLIDER

INTERACTION: SYMBIOTIC, WE FEED AND PROVIDE A HOME AND HE ALSO PROVIDES US WITH ENTERTAINMENT.
DOMESTICATED SPECIES: SOME ARE PETS BUT THERE ARE STILL SOME IN THE WILD

SPECIES #6

SCIENTIFIC NAME: GOPHERUS AGASSIZII

COMMON NAME: DESERT TORTOISE
INTERACTION: SYMBIOTIC, FEED AND PROVIDE SHELTER

DOMESTICATED SPECIES: SOME ARE PETS BUT THERE ARE STILL SOME IN THE WILD

SPECIES #7

SCIENTIFIC NAME: GOSSYPIUM

COMMON NAME: COTTON

INTERACTION: NOT SURE WHICH CATEGORY, BUT WE USE IT FOR MAKING OF CLOTHES

DOMESTICATED SPECIES: YES

SPECIES #8

SCIENTIFIC NAME: H2O

COMMON NAME: WATER

INTERACTION: IT PROVIDES US WITH HYDRATION

DOMESTICATED SPECIES: YES

SPECIES #9

SCIENTIFIC NAME: DRACAENA SANDERIANA

COMMON NAME: LUCKY BAMBOO
INTERACTION: SYMBIOTIC, I PROVIDE WATER, CARBON DIOXIDE, IT PROVIDES BEAUTY AND OXYGEN

DOMESTICATED SPECIES: YES

SPECIES #10

SCIENTIFIC NAME: TRITICUM AESTIVUM

COMMON NAME: WHEAT

INTERACTION: COMMENSAL, BECAUSE I GET FOOD FROM IT.

DOMESTICATED SPECIES: YES

SPECIES #11

SCIENTIFIC NAME: BOS PRIMIGENIUS TAURUS

COMMON NAME: COW

INTERACTION: COMMENSAL, BECAUSE WE DRINK MILK FROM IT AND EAT ITS MEAT

DOMESTICATED SPECIES: YES

SPECIES #12
SCIENTIFIC NAME: SOLANUM TUBEROSUM
COMMON NAME: POTATO

INTERACTION: COMMENSAL BECAUSE WE EAT THEM

DOMESTICATED SPECIES: YES

SPECIES #13

SCIENTIFIC NAME: ZEA MAYS

COMMON NAME: CORN

INTERACTION: COMMENSAL, BECAUSE WE EAT THEM

DOMESTICATED SPECIES: YES

SPECIES #14

SCIENTIFIC NAME: GALLUS DOMESTICUS

COMMON NAME: CHICKEN

INTERACTION: COMMENSAL, BECAUSE CHICKENS LAY EGGS AND WE EAT THEM. PREY BECAUSE WE ALSO EAT THE CHICKEN.

DOMESTICATED SPECIES: YES

SPECIES #15

SCIENTIFIC NAME: BETTA SPLENDENS

COMMON NAME: BETA OR CHINESE FIGHTING FISH

INTERACTION: SYMBIOTIC, I FEED HIM AND PROVIDE SHELTER.

DOMESTICATED SPECIES: YES

SPECIES #16

SCIENTIFIC NAME: DERMATOPHAGOIDES FARINAE

COMMON NAME: DUST MITES

INTERACTION: PARASITIC, LIVES OFF OF THINGS LIKE DEAD SKIN CELLS FROM US
DOMESTICATED SPECIES: NO

SPECIES #17

SCIENTIFIC NAME: SELASPHORUS SASIN
COMMON NAME: HUMMINGBIRD

INTERACTION: SYMBIOTIC, FEED THEM WITH FEEDERS OUTSIDE AND THEY PROVIDE THEIR BEAUTY TO WATCH.

DOMESTICATED: NO

SPECIES #18

SCIENTIFIC NAME: JUNIPERUS COMMUNIS

COMMON NAME: JUNIPER

INTERACTION: SYMBIOTIC, THEY PROVIDE SHADE AND SOME BEAUTY

DOMESTICATED SPECIES: NO

SPECIES #19

SCIENTIFIC NAME: DEPENDS

COMMON NAME: SUSHI

INTERACTION: COMMENSAL, DEPENDING ON THE TYPE OF FISH OR SEAFOOD USED IT IS PROVIDING US WITH FOOD

DOMESTICATED SPECIES: NO

SPECIES #20

SCIENTIFIC NAME: NONE FOUND SOMETIMES REFERRED TO AS CALCULUS
COMMON NAME: TARTAR

INTERACTION: NOT SURE, BUT WE TAKE IT OFF BY BRUSHING OUR TEETH

DOMESTICATED SPECIES: NO

SPECIES #21
SCIENTIFIC NAME: MANIS RELIGIOSA

COMMON NAME: PRAYING MANTIS

INTERACTION: SYMBIOTIC, WHEN MY LIGHTS ARE ON IN MY HOUSE AT NIGHT IT ATTRACTS BUGS, THE PRAYING MANTIS GETS RID OF SOME OF THESE BUGS.

DOMESTICATED SPECIES: NO


SPECIES #22

SCIENTIFIC NAME: PHOLCUS PHALANGIOIDES

COMMON NAME: DADDY-LONG LEGS SPIDER

INTERACTION: SYMBIOTIC, KILLS BUGS FOR ME

DOMESTICATED SPECIES: NO

SPECIES #23

SCIENTIFIC NAME: APHONOPELMA CHALCODDES

COMMON NAME: TARANTULA

INTERACTION: SYMBIOTIC, TAKES CARE OF BUG PROBLEMS

DOMESTICATED SPECIES: NO


SPECIES #24

SCIENTIFIC NAME: SCELOPOROUS TRISTICHUS

COMMON NAME: LIZARD

INTERACTION: SYMBIOTIC, I LET HIM LIVE ON THE SIDE OF MY HOUSE AND HE EATS LOTS OF BUGS

DOMESTICATED SPECIES: NO

SPECIES#25

SCIENTIFIC NAME: HOMOSAPIEN

COMMON NAME: MY KIDS

INTERACTION: SYMBIOTIC, PLAYING, OR ARGUING AND EVERYTHING ELSE FAMILY DOES

DOMESTICATED SPECIES: YES, WELL SOMETIMES I WONDER. JUST KIDDING!