The remora has a front dorsal fin that acts like a suction cup. It uses this fin to attach to whales, sharks, or rays and eat the scraps
their hosts leave behind. What type of relationship is this? Defend your choice.
A It is a mutualistic relationship because both animals benefit; neither animal is harmed.
B It is a symbiotic relationship because the remora benefits by eating the larger animals scraps.
C The key word is host. The shark is the host; the remora is a parasite. This isa parasitic relationship.
D It is an example of commensalism because the remora benefits from the
food scraps while the shark, in this case, is neither helped or harmed.

D)It is an example of commensalism because the remora benefits from the food scraps while the shark, in this case, is neither helped or harmed.  

Explanation:

most historians agree that gabriel mouton, the vicar of st. paul’s church in lyons, france, is the “founding father” of the metric system. he proposed a decimal system of measurement in 1670. mouton based it on the length of one minute of arc of a great circle of the earth (now called a nautical mile, 1852 meters). he also proposed the swing-length of a pendulum with a frequency of one beat per second as the unit of length (about 25 cm). a pendulum beating with this length would have been fairly easy to produce, thus facilitating the widespread distribution of uniform standards. over the years, his work was revised, improved, and extended by a number of french scientists.

the political sponsor of weights and measures reform in the french revolutionary national assembly was the bishop of autun, better known as talleyrand. under his auspices, the french academy appointed several committees to carry out the work of developing a usable system of weights and measures for france. one of the committees recommended a decimalized measurement system based upon a length equal to one ten-millionth of the length of a quadrant of the earth’s meridian (i.e., one ten-millionth of the distance between the equator and the north pole).