are jellyfish animals or plants?

Decker · Post by **Decker** » Tue Jun 28, 2005 11:46 pm

are jellyfish animals or plants?

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Post by Decker » Tue Jun 28, 2005 11:46 pm

Are jellyfish animals or plants? Ben

biostudent84 · Post by **biostudent84** » Wed Jun 29, 2005 3:04 am

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Post by biostudent84 » Wed Jun 29, 2005 3:04 am

Animals. They are Cnidarians.

MrMistery · Post by **MrMistery** » Wed Jun 29, 2005 7:58 pm

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Post by MrMistery » Wed Jun 29, 2005 7:58 pm

Yeap... Inferiour animals... xcept for sponges the most inferior animals...

"As a biologist, I firmly believe that when you're dead, you're dead. Except for what you live behind in history. That's the only afterlife" - J. Craig Venter

kiran · Post by **kiran** » Fri Jul 01, 2005 7:19 am

Re: are jellyfish animals or plants?

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Post by kiran » Fri Jul 01, 2005 7:19 am

Decker wrote:Are jellyfish animals or plants? Ben

Of course jellyfish are animals. The cnidarians. to know more abt jelly fish try
http://www.dnr.state.sc.us/marine/pub/s ... llyfi.html

tell me........

Jelanen · Post by **Jelanen** » Fri Jul 01, 2005 6:07 pm

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Post by Jelanen » Fri Jul 01, 2005 6:07 pm

Yeap... Inferiour animals... xcept for sponges the most inferior animals...

Inferior? Thats a very anthropromorphic term. Maybe the jellyfish think humans are inferior since we don't have nifty microscopic neurotoxin tipped harpoon launchers. Maybe they think we're inferior cause we don't have pretty iridescent colors on our skins and we don't have our own natural light source....

Just picking on you. It is important to remember that inferiority and superiority are relative.

-Jelanen

'It is futile to pretend to the public that we understand how an amoeba evolved into a man, when we cannot tell our students how a human egg produces a skin cell or a brain cell!'

Dr Jérôme J. Lejeune

MrMistery · Post by **MrMistery** » Fri Jul 01, 2005 9:08 pm

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Post by MrMistery » Fri Jul 01, 2005 9:08 pm

Of course they are... But some real well-pais science dudes decided that we can call animals with no endoskeleton inferior... By the way, you can not use most inferior(even if i used it) since it comes from latin and is already a comparaison :roll:

PS: we do have our own light source: the light bulb

"As a biologist, I firmly believe that when you're dead, you're dead. Except for what you live behind in history. That's the only afterlife" - J. Craig Venter

joshuaflores · Post by **joshuaflores** » Wed Sep 12, 2018 6:28 am

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Post by joshuaflores » Wed Sep 12, 2018 6:28 am

Jellyfish are indeed animals, but they are not single celled. And they do more than plants. Jellyfish can swim, and they hunt. Most jellyfish has stinger cells called Nematocysts, which they use to kill or stun small prey like fish larvae.