Phylum Porifera
Characteristics
✏ Filter feed
✏ Asexual Reproduction : Budding via gemmules ✏ Sexual Reproduction : Internal fertilization (larva, sperm and egg) ✏ Use water for respiration. circulation and excretion ✏ No body Symmetry ✏ No body Cavities and No true Tissues ✏ Contain Spongin, spicules, ostrum, osculum, choanocytes, archaeocytes, and epithelial cells |
Porifera Lab
Phylum Cnidaria
Characteristics
✏ Diploblastic
✏ Radial Symmetry ✏ No body cavity ✏ Gastrovascular Cavity Mouth=Anus ✏ True tissues ✏ Nerve net (statocysts and ocelli) ✏ Modified Alternation of Generations: polyp and medusa ✏ Asexual Reproduction: Buds ✏ Sexual Reproduction: Internal fertilization ✏ Contain Cnidocytes, nematocysts, tentacles, mesoglea |