The relationship between the protistan zooxanthellae and the polyps of reef-building corals is best described as a/an ________

A) facultative ectoparasitism
B) facultative commensalism
C) obligate endoparasitism
D) mutualistic symbiosis
E) obligate commensalism


D

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