KINGDOM ANIMALIA

PORIFERA

• Mostly sponges
• Spend most of their lives on the ocean floor
• Maintain homeostasis through diffusion, osmosis and cell transport
• Eat by filtering water through their bodies. The water contains nutrients and small organisms.
• For protection, they secrete a toxic substance that keeps predators and parasites away

PORIFERA

• (vase sponge, barrel sponge, euplectella)
• Reproduce asexually by budding and sexually

CNIDARIA

• aquatic animals with a radical body shape
• They maintain homeostasis by secreting hormones from glands
• They defend themselves, and get food by using their stingers

CNIDARIA

• Jellyfish, sea anemones, and corals
• are able to reproduce sexually and asexually

PLATYHELMINTHES

• Worms with thin, flattened tissues and sensory organs
• Absorb nutrients from the digested food in which they live
• Maintain homeostasis with a digestive tract

PLATYHELMINTHES

• flukes, tapeworms, planarians
• Reproduce sexually
• Protect themselves by infecting and causing diseases

NEMATODA

• Small, round worms. Most causing parasitic diseases.
• Maintain homeostasis with digestive systems
• Absorb nutrients by eating plant matter

NEMATODA

• Reproduce sexually