The tick lives on the elephant and feeds off its blood. If a tick carries Lyme disease, it can pass the disease on to the elephant.

Which explanation below, BEST describes this type of relationship?

Question 9 options:

A. The elephant (host) benefits from its blood being drawn by a parasite who drinks the blood-mutualism

B. The elephant is not affected and the ticks benefits from drinking the elephants blood-commensalism

C. The elephant harms the tick by picking it up with its trunk and eating it- predation

D. The elephant could be harmed because it could catch a disease from the tick- parasitism