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- In a few marine species, gray cells of the sponges primitive "immune" system and can release toxins that kill all cells in the area as part of the rejection of foreign material.
- They also produce toxins that prevent other sessile organisms such as bryozoans or sea squirts from growing on or near them.
- A few species, such as the Caribbean fire sponge, cause a severe rash in humans who handle them and such toxins may protect against predators.
- The Caribbean chicken-liver sponge secretes toxins that kill coral polyps, allowing the sponges to grow over the coral skeletons.
See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sponge
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Does bacteria produce toxins?
Yes. Bacteria do produce toxins. Usually gram positive bacteria produce exo-toxins and gram negative bacteria produce endo-toxins.
Why bacteria produce toxins?
Bacteria produce toxins as a byproduct. They are formed when the bacteria produce energy for themselves by changing one substance into another, and in some cases, there are byproducts, some of which can be toxins.
Does Ebola produces toxins?
No. It doesn't produce toxins as we know them.
What is a pathogen produce?
Some pathogens produce toxins.
Why do nudibranches eat toxic sponges?
The reasons why any animal eats a particular organism is never clear. A top reason why Nudibranchs might eat 'toxic sponges' is that there was not much else available to eat and it was easy to eat the sponges. These sponges were a niche that was unfilled and the Nudibranches adapted to take it. The sponges are still partially toxic to Nudibranchs! They often have specially lined stomachs to protect them from the sponges sharp spicules and the toxins from the sponge accumulate in them. When a predator tries to eat a nudibranch it gets a nasty mouthful of these toxins.
Some pathogens produce what?
Toxins
Why do skunks produce toxins?
It is for defense.
What are the poisons that pathogens produce call?
Toxins.
Sexual reproduction in sponges produce an organism are called?
Sporophyte
How does the glass rope sponge defend its self?
sponges use toxins to repel would be predators
Which animals can produce body parts when it is missing?
starfish sponges sea cucumber others
Bacteria that make you sick by producing toxins?
Toxigenesis, or the ability to produce toxins, is an underlying mechanism by which many bacterial pathogens produce disease. Examples of this are: Corynebacterium diphtheriae, Clostridium tetani, Clostridium perfringens and Streptococcus pyogenes.
