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Because they don't perform photosynthesis, they are actually tiny animals!
Green Tremblay
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∙ 11y agoThe major difference between a sponge and a plant is that sponges do not rely on photosynthesis for energy, but rather they filter food out of the water. Additionally sponges can reproduce sexually, as well as asexually. I hope this clears the issue up for you guys.
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∙ 14y agoNo, It is an organism
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∙ 13y agoIts an animal.
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∙ 13y agoanimal
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What is sponges plants or animals?
Sponges are animals of the phylum Porifera
What are two autrotrophs?
plants and sponges
What are more underwater plants?
Coral, Seaweed and Sponges
What did early biologists think sponges where?
they thought they were plants
Why were sponges once thought to be plants?
Because they didn't move about about as most animals do. =)
Why do you confuse sponges with plants?
Sponges look like plants. They do not appear to move and they are firmly attached to their substrate as if by roots. Unless you follow a sponge's life cycle, and see that the young sponges are motile, swimming freely in the water, and observe that sponges are not photosynthetic, obtaining their food by filtering microscopic organisms from the water, you might be confused.
What did people think sponges were 200 years ago?
Until about 200 years ago people thought that sponges were aquatic plants.
Is sponge a fungi?
Because we wanted to call them sponges. Sponges belong to the animal kingdom since they are heterotrophic. Fungi derive food from breaking doown orgainc material in soil. Sponges feed on existing material. This is the difference.
Does water soil or sponges grow plants the best?
soil is better
Is a calcareous sponge a vascular or nonvascular plant?
Sponges are not plants but animals .
What are the exampes of living things pretend to be nonliving?
plants and may be sponges
Sponges are animals or plants?
Animals. The part that we think of as "sponge" is their skeleton.
