The ocean sunfish (Mola mola) is a large, flat fish that spends most of its time in deep water feeding mainly on jellyfish, Sunfish often have many species of copepods, small crustaceans,

that bury their heads into the soft tissue of the sunfish, Sunfish will swim to the surface of the

water and lie sideways, allowing seabirds to eat the copepods from their skin,

Which list describes the types of relationships the sunfish has with other marine organisms?

The group of choices is given below :

a. Seabirds: mutualism

Jellyfish: predation

Copepods: parasitism

b. Seabirds: parasitism

Jellyfish: commensalism

Copepods: predation

c. Seabirds: predation

Jellyfish: mutualism

Copepods: commensalism

d. Seabirds: commensalism

Jellyfish: parasitism

Copepods: mutualism

The correct answer is option A.  Seabirds: mutualism

Jellyfish: predation

Copepods: parasitism

Explanation:

In this given example sunfish have three different relationships with all three organisms that are related to it tat are seabird, jellyfish, and copepods.

With seabirds, sunfish shows mutualism as they both get benefitted from their relationship in which seabirds feed on copepods and sunfish get rid of their parasite.

With jellyfish, sunfish feed on the jellyfish mainly which suggests that they are predator and jellyfish are prey and their relationship is of predation.

With copepods, copepods bury their heads on the soft tissue of the sunfish so they are parasite on the sunfish that is example of the parasitism