The document discusses key details about sponges. Sponges are odd organisms that can have radial or asymmetrical symmetry. They are able to maintain their shape using mesohyl and get nutrition from water flowing through their pores, with some carnivorous species feeding on small sea creatures. Sponges reproduce through both hermaphroditism and budding and can regenerate parts of their bodies. They provide helpful nitrogen fixation for other marine life.

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symmetry.
As you can see the above sponge is hollow as all sponges are.
Sponges are able to maintain their shape with mesohyl which Extinct sponges
is a protein used in connective tissues. This sponge is a marine -Archeocyathids
sponge. -Archaeocyatha
a da y in the li f e o f a s p o ng e Other Sponges
As a sponge you would get your In order to live you would have to -barrel sponge
nutrition from water flowing through adapt to your surroundings. One thing -kitchen sponge
your pores. Some sponges are actually you would have to do is change the
carnivorous and feed off of small sea shape or your body to allow maximum Resources
creatures. This puts it in the category water flow through.
of consumers in the food chain. - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Sponges are used
by many in the Porifera#Basic_structure
Sponges get oxygen from diffusion shower although most of the sponges -http://www.mcwdn.org/Animals/
which is to put it simply getting the today are synthetic. Sponges.html
oxygen out of the water. -http://www.palaeos.com/Invertebrates/
Sponges are capable of regenerating Porifera/Stromatoporoidea.html
Most sponges are hermaphorodites certain parts of their body assuming -http://www.blackriverfossils.org/
which means they act as the male and that certain cells are still in tact. Invertebrate/archeocyathid/tabid/53/
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the female. Others use budding in
Sponges are believed to be very helpful -http://open-site.org/Science/Animals/
order to reproduce. Porifera
to other marine animals. They can
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Some sponges can move across the change nitrogen gas into a useful
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ocean floor but, most remain in the hydrogen that helps other organisms
same place for their entire life. live.
Internally cells move the sponges food
from place to place.