Diffeeence between sponges and corals.
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Answer:
Corals and sponges both are marine invertebrates that belong to different phyla, Cnidaria and Porifera respectively.
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Explanation:
Sponge
Their body appears like plants and bears numerous pores.
Sponges can live very deep in the sea.
corals
Their body is a sac-like structure.
Corals are less likely to exist very deep in the sea
Sponge Coral
Sponges belong to the phylum Porifera. Corals belong to the phylum Cnidaria.
Their body appears like plants and bears numerous pores. Their body is a sac-like structure.
Sponges can live very deep in the sea. Corals are less likely to exist very deep in the sea.
Their body has numerous pores to extract food from the water and eliminate wastes from the body. Their body has a single central opening for ingesting food and eliminating wastes from the body.
They lack tentacles. They have tentacles around the central opening.
They do not secrete calcium carbonate to form an exoskeleton. They excrete calcium carbonate to form coral reef which acts as an exoskeleton.
They produce toxins to protect themselves from predators. They use their tentacles to protect themselves from predators.