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What is the advantage to a sessile animal of producing free swimming larvae?
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To move away from being in one concentrated spot; spread outwards.
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What is 'sessile' in regard to animals?
immobile organism such as corrals and barnacles
What animal do not move?
Plenty of animals are sessile, meaning attached to something like a plant. They include sponges, anemones, corals, barnacles, and sea squirts. Their larva larvae do swim around, though corals can reproduce by budding.
Which animal possesses light-producing organs and very large eyes?
Lanternfish
What is the advantage of living in a burrow for an animal?
To Hide From Large Predators.
Advantages and disadvantages of Animal power?
The advantage of animal power is that animals are much stronger than man. The disadvantage is that they require care like feeding and veterinary care that can be expensive.
Is there a sessile land animal?
No they are not any sessile animals on land.
Is a starfish a sessile or freemoving animal?
Starfish can move about.
Name a land animal that is sessile?
Sessile means nonmotile. Animals in this category include reef-building corals, mollusks, barnacles, and sponges. On land, scale insects mature as sessile animals.
What is the feeding pattern of sponges?
Sponges are sessile organisms during their adulthood, meaning they do not move. To feed, sponges have adapted a process known as "filter-feeding." Basically, small particles of food passing by in the water are taken in by the sponge and digested directly in the sponge's cell layers. The larvae also feed this way, although they are not sessile and are free swimming.
An animal that can move freely around in its environment is called?
mobile, the opposite (antonym) is sessile.
Sea anemone and sponge are sessile why are they group into animal?
Their larvae stages are motile stages.
What is 'sessile' in regard to animals?
immobile organism such as corrals and barnacles
What animal do not move?
Plenty of animals are sessile, meaning attached to something like a plant. They include sponges, anemones, corals, barnacles, and sea squirts. Their larva larvae do swim around, though corals can reproduce by budding.
What are organisms that spend their entire adult lives attached to one spot called?
immobile animal/plant
What type of animals are typically absent in soft-bottom subtidal communities?
The type of animals that are typically absent in a soft bottom subtidal community are sessile. A sessile animal is not able to move and is permanently attached to something solid.
Which animal can't move?
sessile animals mean animals that can't move ,such as coral,ascdans,sea sponge etc...
Is a sea star a non-locomotive animal?
No, they will move to find and open clams by pumping water through its legs - they are not sessile.
