context: Symbiosis (from the Greek συμβίωσις "living together", which comes from the words σύν "together" and βίωσις "life") [2] is all kinds of long-term and close biological interactions between two different biological organisms, be it mutualism , commensalism or parasitism. The organisms involved, each called a symbiont, can come from the same or different species. In 1879, Heinrich Anton de Bary defined it as "different organisms that live together".
question: what is meant by symbiosis?
answers.text: all kinds of long-term and close biological interactions between two different biological organisms, be it mutualism , commensalism or parasitism