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Because they cannot make their own food, they must eat other organismd to get nutrients

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Q: What kingdom are sponges in and why?
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What kingdom are the sponges in?

They are animals, and so they are in Animalia. Although they look lifeless, they are not.


Are mushrooms and sponges fungi?

Mushrooms and toadstools are examples of fungi. Sponges are animals of the phylum Porifera. In biological terms, fungi form a kingdom. Plants have a separate kingdom. Animals have a separate kingdom.


What is a sponges kingdom?

Kingdom: animalia Phylum: Porifera


What kingdom do sponges belong?

animalia


What species of sponges are beneficial?

all sponges are beneficial in the kingdom of porifera because sponges do not move and do not harm any other organisms


Which type of organism is the simplest?

Amoeba sponges


Which group within kingdom protista probably gave rise to sponges?

Amoebas gace rise to sponges since the wall of sponges contain amoebocytes.


What group doe sponges belong to?

Kingdom: Animalia Sub-Kingdom: Parazoa Phylum: Porifera


What kingdom is the sea sponge?

Sea sponges comes under the kingdom Animalia. They belong to the phylum Porifera.


What are kingdom phylum classification order family genus and species of sponges?

Domain: Eukaryota Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Polifera Sponges are their own phylum. There are a multitude of different classes, orders, families, genes, and species of sponges.


What makes sponges animals and not plants?

Sponges are heterotrophic, which is a characteristic of an animal and not a plant. Sponges are also multicellular, are made up from cells without cell walls, characteristics of the kingdom Animalia and NOT Plante.


What did sea sponges descend from?

Kingdom Protista Phylum: Choanozoa (Unranked) Filozoa Class: Choanoflagellatea