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are jellyfish animals or plants?

Postby Decker » Tue Jun 28, 2005 11:46 pm

Are jellyfish animals or plants? Ben
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Postby biostudent84 » Wed Jun 29, 2005 3:04 am

Animals. They are Cnidarians.
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Postby MrMistery » Wed Jun 29, 2005 7:58 pm

Yeap... Inferiour animals... xcept for sponges the most inferior animals...
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Re: are jellyfish animals or plants?

Postby 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........
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Postby 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.

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Postby 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
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