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How do epithelial like cells control filter feeding in sponges?
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These cells are thin and flat. They contract in response to touch or to irritating chemicals. In so doing, they close pores in the sponge.
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How does Barrel sponges eat?
they filter feed
What do oyster eat?
Oysters eat mostly plankton and algae that lives on the surface of the ocean.Oysters are filter feeders (also known as suspension feeders) that feed by straining suspended matter and food particles from water. Evidence shows that their capacity to filter water can improve the quality of water, making them valuable for coastal regions in which water quality is poor. Because of their filtering abilities, they are used in some coastal regions to help control water pollutants.
What is a flamingos role in the ecosystem?
Flamingos help clarify the waters they live in by filter feeding on brine shrimp and blue-green algae
What is the function of the ctenidia?
respiration, blood vessels allow for oxygen carrying, cilia allow for filter feeding.
What are characteristics of sponges?
Different types of sponges live in sea water as well as freshwater they eat bacteria and other minerals in the water. They do not have a skellington instead they have a jelly like substance that is mostly collagen stuck between two layers. The foamy holes filter the water and work as a digestive system.
Do sponges live in fresh water?
No because it makes filter-feeding impossible for the sponges No because it makes filter-feeding impossible for the sponges
How do sponges remove nitrogenous waste?
FILTER-FEEDING!!!!!!!!!
What type of animal uses flagella to assist in filter feeding?
sponges
Do jellyfish use collar cells for filter feeding?
Jellyfish do not have collar cells. Sponges have collar cells, and yes, they are used for filter feeding.
How does a sea sponge survive?
it matters what you mean by survive... it feeds by filter feeding.
Three kinds of animals that use filter feeding to get food?
Filter feeders are also known as suspension feeders and are most commonly aquatic animals or birds. Three examples of filter feeding animals are flamingos, clams, and sponges.
Sponges are animals or plants?
Animals. The part that we think of as "sponge" is their skeleton.
Are sponges filter feeders?
Yes, sponges are filter feeders. I also believe they were the first filter feeders.
Are sea sponges decomposers?
No, sea sponges are not decomposers. Sponges are filter feeders.
What is the feeding pattern of sponges?
Sponges are sessile organisms during their adulthood, meaning they do not move. To feed, sponges have adapted a process known as "filter-feeding." Basically, small particles of food passing by in the water are taken in by the sponge and digested directly in the sponge's cell layers. The larvae also feed this way, although they are not sessile and are free swimming.
How do sponges get nutriton?
Sponges filter their food when water flows by.
How do purple tube sponges breath?
they are filter feeding animals so when the flagella or little sticky whips inside flip around it collects oxygen from the water
