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a aT aaa al” il”, , INTERDEPENDENCE OF, ORGANISMS, , AND THE ENVIRONMENT, , ARNE OR TER ORE TIT ITe semana te, , ® Man and Other Animals Depend on Plants :, , @ Our family and our_society + Human beings are the most intelligent organism in, the earth. Yet we can not live eer, alone. Not only we, no animal or, plant or any other organism can, live alone., , An organism (Animal, plant ————= a ae, microbes) prpether lives In group Fig. (a) mae of plumbing, Hi wae of Bi tae Doctor, or single (solitory) or whether checking a patient., the organism form a society or, not, all the organisms have to depend on others directly or indirectly,, , You must have noticed that your father or some, Si other person call a doctor when someone of your, | family member is ill, call a plumber to repair water, pipe connections, call an electrician for any electrical, problem in house. Different persons are engaged for, different type of job., , ge you go wen your py ole #0 not work, roper|, , aca you have also noticed that in pur, , Fig. Work of cycle repairing family mother or any elderly, woman or any other person does the work of cooking. Father, uncle,, mother or gandfather performs the work of daily marketing., , ————, Therefore, it is clear that all of us to depend on others for our, existance in the family and in the society. It is also clear that we, can not do all these works ourselves alane., In the living world animals depend on other animals and plants, , for their food, shelter, oxygen, reproduction, body defence, z, , develo etc. Plants also depend on animals too for carbon, , dioxide (CO,), pollination, dispersal of fruits and seeds,, , reproduction, growth, etc. Fig. Work of cooking