What can a mollusk do with its foot?

What can a mollusk do with its foot?

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Mollusks have a muscular foot, which is used for locomotion and anchorage, and varies in shape and function, depending on the type of mollusk under study. In shelled mollusks, this foot is usually the same size as the opening of the shell. The foot is a retractable as well as an extendable organ.

Q. What type of symmetry do human have?

bilateral symmetry

Q. Which invertebrate has a mantle and a foot?

Mollusks

Q. What do you call the group of marine animals that has full of pores or holes?

Sponges are animals of the phylum Porifera (Modern Latin for bearing pores). They are multicellular organisms that have bodies full of pores and channels allowing water to circulate through them, consisting of jelly-like mesohyl sandwiched between two thin layers of cells.

Q. Do all mollusks have a foot?

All mollusks have a thin layer of tissue called a mantle which covers their internal organs. The mantle produces the mollusk’s shell. Clams, oysters, snails, and octopuses are all mollusks. Most mollusks move with a muscular structure called a foot.

Q. What can molluscs do with their foot?

The foot of a gastropod is a flat structure used for crawling. Waves of muscular contraction travel along its length, moving the animal slowly over the ground. The foot of a bivalve mollusk is a bulbous…

Q. What color is a snail’s blood?

Blue Blood

Q. Why is lobster blood blue?

Snails, lobsters and spiders actually have blue blood (properly called haemolymph). The colour comes from the copper atoms in the haemocyanin molecule, which is blue when it is carrying an oxygen atom. It is dissolved directly into their ‘blood’ instead of being enclosed in blood cells.

Q. What is the rarest lobster in the world?

The rarest is an albino – one in 100 million lobsters. Dorr Lobster Seafood Market in Bangor received an unusual delivery: A 2-pound camouflage pattern lobster.

Q. How rare is a blue lobster?

200 million

Q. What is the rarest lobster color?

White

Q. Do blue lobsters taste different?

The Blue Lobster Tastes the Same as the Other Lobsters: Managing Expectations and The Desires of Our Hiring Managers. The blue lobster would taste exactly the same as the other red lobsters if it was cooked. There are very few things other than the color of the lobster that makes him different from his peers.

Q. Do lobsters not age?

The lobsters’ longevity may be connected to the behaviour of their DNA. The long chromosomes in animal cells have special tips on their ends, called telomeres, that help protect the DNA. In other words, American lobster cells apparently don’t age in a normal way, making the lobsters biologically immortal.

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