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The World of Life : Plants
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The host-parasite or predator-prey-relationship may be harmful to the host or prey as a species when such relationship is first set up. But the study of different examples of parasite-host, and predator-prey interrelations shows that "in general, where the associations are of long standing, the long-term effect on the host or prey may not be very detrimental and may even be beneficial.”'113
The brief survey of the classifications of living things-plants and animals, their distinctions, mode of nutrition, ecosystem, habitat and ecologic niche, and types of interactions between species as found in the Jaina Āgamas gives a picture of the world of animals and plants, all related closely or distantly by evolutionary descent, and bound together in a variety of inter-specific interactions.
113. Biology, p. 93.
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