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WEEK 1 DISCUSSION Post a total of 3 substantive responses over 2 separate days for full participation. This includes your initial post and 2 replies to classmates or your faculty member. Due Thursday Respond to the following in a minimum of 175 words: If you were asked to choose one of the following invertebrates as a pet (protozoa, sponges, and placozoans), which would choose? Explain your choice. Good day Class and Professor Andropolis, This seems to be question that is tough to answer from me choosing a pet. However, Placozoans would be the choice for this discussion question for the simple fact the complexity of the organism and adaptability it possesses inside. First off, this organism is only about one to two millimeters wide and provides a structure has complicated as diverse cell types such as Eumetazoans (Srivastave, 2008, p 955). The research around this species is relatively new and studies have been being performed since the 1970’s, even though this was discovered in the 1800’s. I have never seen this species in the wild only in a science lab. So, this also intrigues me to have as a pet and to see if there would be a possible way to provide hypothesis to whether this species could provide benefits when dealing with pollutants within the warm waters of the world. However, changes have shown to occur within the species of the nature of asexual reproduction due to changes in temperatures and salinity level changes within the oceans of the world. Also, would like to possible study the reactions involved on Co2 absorption rates in the oceans and where this would affect this species as well and what diversity would come of this if any. Wish more of this was studied I am curious if this structure could be in the far depths of the oceans or is it only a shallow water species. Great Topic this week Tom
References Srivastava, M., Begovic, E., Chapman, J., Putnam, N. H., Hellsten, U., Kawashima, T., Kuo, A., Mitros, T., Salamov, A., Carpenter, M. L., Signorovitch, A. Y., Moreno, M. A., Kamm, K., Grimwood, J., Schmutz, J., Shapiro, H., Grigoriev, I. V., Buss, L. W., Schierwater, B., … Rokhsar, D. S. (2008). The Trichoplax genome and the nature of placozoans. Nature , 454 (7207), 955- 960. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature07191
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