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Is a jellyfish a plant or an animal?

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Jellyfish don't have specialized digestive, osmoregulatory, central nervous, respiratory, or cuirculatory systems. They digest using thegastrodermal lining of the gastrovascular cavity, where nutrients are absorbed. They do not need a respiratory system since their skin is thin enough that the body is oxygenated by diffusion. They have limited control over movement, but can use their hydrostatic skeleton accomplish movement through contraction-pulsations of the bell-like body; some species actively swim most of the time, while others are passive much of the time. Jellyfish are composed of more than 90% water; most of their umbrella mass is a gelatinous material - the jelly - called mesoglea which is surrounded by two layers of epithelial cells which form the exumbrella (top surface) and subumbrella (bottom surface) of the bell, or body....

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is an animal OR a plant if you think about it it is easy to say it acts like an animal but, the way it reproduces is like a plant . Even though it can control the way it moves it can still be a plant, a tree can control where its roots can go and obviously its to the water. Its system is slow but it can move i think the jellyfish is a plant because of the way it reproduces and acts.

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It is an animal. It is a plankton which means that it goes with the current. It stings things to eat them which a plant would not do. Though it looks rather helpless, it is still an animal with stomachs and brains.

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No. it is an Invertabrate animal.(invertabrate means spineless)
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