Lichens are well known combination of an alga and a fungus where fungus has:

Lichens are well known combination of an alga and a fungus where fungus has:
  1. a saprophytic relationship with the alga
  2. an epiphytic relationship with the alga
  3. a parasitic relationship with alga
  4. a symbiotic relationship with alga.

Solution

Lichens are the symbiotic relation that consist of two unrelated components, an alga and/or cyanobacterium (photobiont) and a fungus (mycobiont).

Asked in: NEET 2004

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