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Sponges digest food through a process called filter feeding. They draw water into their bodies through tiny openings called ostia, trapping microscopic particles like bacteria and organic matter in specialized cells known as choanocytes. These cells use their flagella to create water currents and capture food particles, which are then engulfed and digested within the cells. The waste products are expelled back into the water through the larger opening called the osculum.
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What advantage is there to the extracellular digestion of cnidarians over the intracellular digestion of sponges?
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Which phyla of animals was the first to have intracellular digestion?
The Porifera, or sponges
Only animal in which digestion occurs within cells?
sponges
What body function process do all invertebrates except sponges have?
A process of digestion
How does gas exchange occur in sponges?
gills
When does santorum occur in your digestion?
It does not occur during digestion. Santorum occurs inside the bowels usually.
What in the sponge transports and digests nutrients?
In sponges, the transport and digestion of nutrients occur through a specialized system involving choanocytes, which are flagellated cells that create water currents and trap food particles. The trapped food is then phagocytized by the choanocytes or passed to amoebocytes, which distribute nutrients throughout the sponge's body. This cellular-level digestion allows sponges to efficiently process and utilize nutrients without a centralized digestive system.
In which body compartment does carbohydrate digestion not occur?
carbohydrate digestion doesn't occur in the stomach and the large intestine.
What are Sponges' special adaptations?
All sponges have toxic substances inside of their bodies to discourage preditors to not attack them.it is a watery habitat
Where does digestion occur in a squid?
Cecum
Does bile occur in mechanical digestion?
no
Where does the most digestion in the stomach occur?
Most nutrient digestion occurs in the stomach
