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the ocean with the largest surface area
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pacific
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a technological development that was a direct development of World War II
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sonar
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in the sci method, questions are stated as a
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question
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pangea started to break up about
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200 million years ago
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an example of a shear boundary is
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san andreas fault
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island arcs are usually associated with
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volcanoes
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hydrogen bonds in water molecules are formed between
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hydrogen and oxygen atoms of adjacent molecules
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a temp of 4 C indicates
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when freshwater is most dense
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the salinity of water is measured in
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PPM
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Thallus is
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body form
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coralline green and red algae recieve this name due to their ability to
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harden, they have CaCO3 in their cell walls
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two types of pulls on the tides are
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sun and moon
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what are carotene, xanthophylls, and fucoxanthins?
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pigments
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currents foremd from temp and salt concentration fluctuation are called
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thermohaline currents
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prokaryotes included in the kingdom
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monera
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stromatolites are
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massive calcium mounds formed by blue green algae
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diatoms are mostly
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producers, plankton, have oil, microscopic, frustule, protista
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the first marinebio lab in the US
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Woodshole
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algae are classified according to their
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color
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when super heated water seeps into the fissures the result could be
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hydrothermal vents
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the reason for change in sea level is related to the
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ice age
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process bywhich water molecules fo from liquid to solid
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evaporation
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hydrogen bonds:
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raise the heat capacity of water
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the strongest pull of tides comes from the
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moon
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all effect tides except
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wind direction
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floridas west coast experiences
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diurnal tides
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which is not true of the decay of bacteria?
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carry out photosunthesis
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protists that have a shell made of SiO (silicon) are called
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diatoms
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Theory
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hypothesis tested and passes many test, widely accepted
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first founder of marinebio
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aristotle
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first explorer to have a naturalist on board
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james cook
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solid layer of the earth found below the crust
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mantle
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lithogenic sediments come from
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weathering of rocks
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materials with the newly forming earth settled into layers according to
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density
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rule of constant proportions
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amts of various ions in salt water
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which type of light penetrates the least in water?
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red
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Secchi disk measures
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water clarity
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suns unequal heating of land and water causes
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wind
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currents in the northern hemis spin
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right
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currents in south hemis move
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left
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waters of the gulf stream are
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warm
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red tides are caused mostly by
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dinoflagellates
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radiolarians are characterized by
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test made of silicon, look like stars
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plankton that can be collected in a standard plankton net
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microplankton
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largest sized algae
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brown
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marine flowering plants
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angiosperms
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body of water that is connected by land and one ocean is
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a sea
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period of time when no learning took place
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dark ages
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thinnest layer of the earth
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crust
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how the earth originated
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the big bang
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salinity of seawater increases as
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evaporation increase
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pressure increases 1 atm every
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33 ft
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waves breaking at an angle help to form
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sand bars
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deep sea spiral currents called
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eckman circulation
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dinoflagellates that live in association reef building corals and other animals are known
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zooxanthellae
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which is not a protist?
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bacteria (monera)
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which mangrove leaf is green on one side but white or silver on the other?
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white mangrove (Laguncularia)
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ALVIN
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deep sea sub operated by woodshole
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reason to study marinebio?
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food and survive
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magnetic anomalities helped to show that
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sea floor was spreading
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super ocean!
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panthalassa
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substance of opposite charged ions
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molecule ------ SALTS!
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when a diver descneds, cavity air
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collapses
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waves that are produced by earthquakes are called
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tsunamis
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wind that blows from land to sea can cause
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upwelling
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the beach that has high wave crests and shorter wavelength is considered to be
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high energy
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bacteria reproduce by
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binary fission
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some bacteria can use phosphorus to make fod
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luminescent
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all belong to protista except
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lichens
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algae are economically important becuase they
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are used as animal feed, food, and thickener
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mangrove with prop roots
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rhizophora -- red mangrove
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holdfasts are absent in
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brown algae -- sargassum
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seagrasses
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contain holdfasts
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SCUBA was designed by Gagnan with hlep from
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Jacques Costeau
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some deep sea sponges produce discodermalide that helps cure
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cancer
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when scientists set up conditions in which hypothesis can be tested
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experiment
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carrageenan is
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a thickener, IRISH MOSS
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Suggested theory of plate tectonics
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wagener
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zones where sea floor is destroyed is called
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subduction zones
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feature of a passive margin would be
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a wide continental shelf
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density formula
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d= M/V
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organisms that live in or on the surface tension are called
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neustons
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all can affect the organism except
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the water
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beach zone is considered to be
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high energy zone
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name given to the shell of the diatom
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frustule
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some dinoflagellates produce
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toxins
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ALL PLANTS are falt tolerant must have a way to
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filter out salt
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air bladders
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help keep algae stay near surface for light
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lowest part of a wave
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trough
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holdfasts are absent in
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sargassum
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oceanic crust is largely made up of
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basalt
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ealy evidence of contintenal drift was suggested by
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Bacon/Wegener
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more recnet evidence for continental drift came from discrover of
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mid oceanic ridges
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FORIMINIFERA are
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consumers, zooplankton
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migratin of zooplankton that is determined by light of day is
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diuranl
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imature stage
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larvae
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arrow worm is
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holoplankton
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physalia is!
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man-o-war
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cannot make its own food
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hetertroph
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phylum Porifera means
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sponges
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the ability to grow new parts is called
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regeneration
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spicules are
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skeletal structures of sponges
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an animal that contains stinging capsules are
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cnidarian
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special cells that cary nutrients through the speong
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collar cells
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sponges are classified according to make up of
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spicules
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sessile anmials
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do not move
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all snidarians share all of features excpet
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digestive sustem
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soft corals belong to
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gorgonians
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