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What is the function of plicate membranes and gills in bivalves?
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Which function do cellular membranes and gills have in common?
They Expel Waste
How do bivalves obtain food?
Bivalves feed by filtering food from the water as it passes through their gills. They have specialized gills that capture food as it passes through with the water.
What are the three main body regions of bivalves?
Three main body regions of bivalves are 1) Foot 2) Visceral mass 3) Gills.
How would you describe the structure of a mollusk's gills?
The gills of bivalves that I have seen, I would describe as looking like a piece of screening covered with cilia.
Do bivalves have heads?
No.They have a rudimentary brain, eyes; a mouth and gills, but none of it is organized into a head.
What structure in fish performs the same function as lungs in mammals?
GillsThe gills perform the same function.
What is a function of a mushrooms gills?
The function of gills on a mushroom is to hold and release the spores that a mushroom produces.
Are bivalves carnivores?
No, Bivalves are not toxic. Bivalves are any kind of animal with two shells, like a clam or mollusk. They cannot bite you, or sting you. If you do not cook them when you eat them, you will get food poisoning.
What is a gills function on a squid?
to BREATH!
The primary function of external gills in aquatic animals is to do what?
The primary function of external gills in aquatic animals is to exchanges gases. However, gas exchange is more difficult with external gills.
How do univalves feed?
There is no such animal as a "univalve", however "bivalves" are filter feeders and filter seawater through their gills to pick up trace amounts of food.
In bivalves water is brought into the mantle cavity and to the gills through the water that has filtered through the gills and waste material excreted to the mantle cavity are then flushed out through?
The water comes through the incurrent siphon and gets flushed out the excurrent siphon
