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Are sponges a source of food?
Sponges are not really a source of food to humans. You can eat them but I suggest you don't. It is not normal. They are a source of food to some animals like certain sea slugs, certain fish, and I think some turtles.
What cell type in sponges is responsible for producing the water current through the sponge?
choanocytes are resonsible for current flow and trapping food particles in sponges source: my invertebrate zoology textbook :)
How do sponges process their food?
Sponges process their food by fillter feed and fillter fecies...
How do sponges get nutriton?
Sponges filter their food when water flows by.
What function does water perform for sponges?
Sponges get food from the water around them.
Do sea sponges make there own food?
No, sea sponges can not make their own food. They obtain their nutrition from the food particles in the water. Sponges primarily eat bacteria, phytoplankton, and other small food bits out of the water.
How do sponges ingest food?
sponges feed through their pores or holes, their pores create a current pulling food into the central cavity of the sponge. the food sticks to the collar cells that lines the central cavity, there the amoebocytes pick up the food and digest it, carrying the nutrients to the other cells.summary:porescollar cellsamoebocytesother cells.
Why do natural sponges need to absorb water in nature?
natural sponges needs to absorb water in nature because water is it source of living
Living things that can NOT make their own food?
Sponges
Sponges obtain the food they need for survival by?
they filter food from the water so the food comes to them
What is anouther name for why sponges do not move to get food since adults are stuck in one place?
Sponges get food from the water and it goes throgh a polyp because there is food in the water but it is to small for us to see.answered byfelicity p.
What name is given to the food-trapping cells of sponges?
Choanocytes
