Cnidarian and Sponges

What is the phylum name of sponges?

• Cnidaria

• Animalia

• Porifera

• Mollusca

This is a representative organism from the class Cubozoa:

• obelia

• Box jellyfish

• Sea Anemone

• True Jelly Fish

Which of the following animals exhibits asymmetry as an adult?

• starfish

• jellyfish

• sponge

• flat worm

This is a representative organism from the class Anthozoa:

• obelia

• True Jellyfish

• Sea Anemones

• Box Jellyfish

This Cnidarian morphological type is adapted for floating or free-swimming

• Medusa

• Planula

• nerve net

• polyp

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Jellyfish use their nematocysts to

• digest food

• eliminate waste

• Capture Prey

• swimming

General feature of members belonging to the Phylum Cnidaria:

• tentacles

• cnidocytes

• nerve net

• polyp

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Sponges

• free swimming organisms

• have nematocyst

• primarily sessile organisms

• are triploblastic in structure

These are the many tiny pores for incoming water in sponges:

• osculum

• ostia (pore)

• spongecoel

• collar cell

If a sponge lacked choanocytes it would not be able to

• form spicules

• produce color pigments

• feed

• protect itself

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