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What advantage do free-swimming larvae provide for the echinoderms?
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∙ 14y ago
The free-swimming larvae can travel much greater distances than the bottom-dwelling adults, increasing their range. If the environmental conditions for the adults become bad, the larvae can travel to another area that may be more favorable.
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∙ 15y ago
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∙ 14y agostarfish are awesome and this answer is completely wrong, the larvae can swim, hide, eat, grow, and move away from danger.
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What advantage do free swimming larvae provide for the echinoderms?
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How many body openings do echinoderns have?
Adult echinoderms only have one body opening. Their larvae have two.
Which animal has radial symmetry?
Cnidarians are true radially symmetrical animals. They include jellyfish. Echinoderms (like starfish) also display radial symmetry. It is important to note that the larvae of echinoderms are bilaterally symmetrical and that Echinoderms evolved from a bilaterally symmetrical group.
Why do many benthic invertebrates produce planktonic larvae?
To aid dispersal of their larvae. To avoid desiccation. To provide food for crustaceans. To help stabilize oyster beds. Benthic invertebrates don't produce planktonic larvae.
What is the advantage to a sessile animal of producing free swimming larvae?
To move away from being in one concentrated spot; spread outwards.
Type of symmetry exhibited by echinoderm larvae?
the same type as blue footed underwater donkeys.
What happens to echinoderm larvae when they metamorphose into adults?
Echinoderms have swimming larvae that are bilaterally symmetrical, with left and right sides, but they do not 'develop into' bottom-living adult echinoderms, which are radially symmetrical, often star-shaped. The juvenile (young adult), radial from the start, grows from a group of stem cells within the larva. It gradually moves to the outside of the larva, and the larva and juvenile develop side-by-side. In most cases, the larva eventually settles and shrivels, and the juvenile crawls away. In one species of starfish, however, the juvenile drops off the swimming larva, which can go on swimming for a further three months.
Are maggots and caterpillars examples of larvae or arachnids?
They are larvae
What are larvae called?
I'm not entirely sure, but I think that larvae are called 'larvae'.
What does larvae mean?
larvae is the baby of insects, for example, ant larvae, bee larvae, etc. etc.
How many body openings does mollusca have?
The famous animal the "Porifera", has 6 body openings.
Can dragonfly larvae have babies?
no, because the larvae ARE the baby
