How, you ask, is the harmless cartoon Porifera being so used?. From Wordnik.com. [Sponge Bob Is Brainwashing Your Children!] Reference
Porifera (sponges) lack organs and nervous systems and possess a limited number of discrete cell types. From Wordnik.com. [Another predictable argument against front-loading] Reference
New carnivorous sponges Porifera, Poecilosclerida collected from manned submersibles in the deep Pacific. From Wordnik.com. [New Carnivorous Sponges Discovered] Reference
Every single freaky one of them appears to be another confusing word about Porifera sponges, for the less scientifically minded among you. From Wordnik.com. [Keys Trip, Day 2:] Reference
In fact, there are so many species of beetles that there are more species of beetles than the total number of species currently living in the Phyla Echinodermata, Mollusca, Annelida, Platyhelminthes, Cnidaria, and Porifera combined!. From Wordnik.com. [Species richness] Reference
Sponges (Porifera) are the phylogenetically oldest. From Wordnik.com. [Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]] Reference
Porifera was started last year as a business built around this carbon nanotube technology. From Wordnik.com. Reference
Phylum Porifera Main Characteristics Sponges thought to be the most primitive of animals. From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
In the very lowest, indeed, including the Porifera (sponges); Polypifera (mushroom corals). From Wordnik.com. [Theism: The Witness of Reason and Nature to an All-Wise and Beneficent Creator.] Reference
Thakur AN, Müller WE (2007) Isolation and characterization of Wnt pathway-related genes from Porifera. From Wordnik.com. [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference
Ereskovsky A, Tokina D (2007) Asexual reproduction in homoscleromorph sponges (Porifera; Homoscleromorpha). From Wordnik.com. [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference
Sangil Kim and Jennifer Klare, scientists who work for Porifera, thought up some of the new uses for this technology along with Bakajin and Aleksandr Noy, a chemist at the lab. From Wordnik.com. Reference
Porifera is developing membranes with vastly superior permeability, durability and selectivity for water purification and other applications in the clean tech sector such as CO2 sequestration. From Wordnik.com. [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference
Recently, the team made up of Bakajin and Noy as well as another LLNL scientist, Francesco Fornasiero, and Porifera scientists Sangil Kim and Jennifer Klare, thought about different applications for the nanotube membranes. From Wordnik.com. [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference
Porifera is working on water purification membranes as well as other clean technology like carbon sequestration - a way of separating and capturing carbon from smokestacks before it enters the atmosphere and contributes to greenhouse effect warming. From Wordnik.com. Reference
Protozoa, Porifera (sponges), Coelenterates (hydras and sea anemones), Mollusks, Anellids (worms), Arthropoda (insects, crustaceans), Echinoderms (sea urchins and starfish) and, shortly thereafter, Chordates (our phylum) and other minor types appeared at the dawn of the Cambrian period. From Wordnik.com. [Of Form over Substance: a review of Sermonti - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
3 But wow, when you put Porifera under a microscope...you rather wish they were rather less complex. From Wordnik.com. [Keys Trip, Day 2:] Reference
The Porifera have pores. From Wordnik.com. [Natural History] Reference
(2003) Larval development in the Homoscleromorpha (Porifera, Demospongiae). From Wordnik.com. [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference
4 I really know zilch about Porifera. From Wordnik.com. [Keys Trip, Day 2:] Reference
Porifera. From Wordnik.com. [CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]] Reference
Tim says he has so far eaten from the following animal phyla: Porifera, Cnidaria, Ctenophora, Platyhelminthes, Nematoda, Nematomorpha, Rotifera, Tardigrada, Sipunculida, Bryozoa, Ectoprocta, Brachiopoda, Mollusca, Annelida, Arthropoda, Chordata and Echinodermata. From Wordnik.com. [So many phyla so little time to eat them all] Reference
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