The Bath Sponge
-Spongia officinalis, or the bath sponge, is a commercially used sponge that is found in the Mediterranean Sea.
-These sponges can reproduce sexually or asexually.
-Asexually, these sponges grow pods called survival pods or gemmules that are either detached by waves, or let off when the sponge dies.
-These pods then land and start to develop into a new sponge plant.
Sponges are hermaphrodites, which means they are all the same gender.
They do not have sexual organs, so sperm is expelled into the water, and if it happens to be ingested by another sponge of its species, then the eggs are fertilized.
-The eggs are let off into the water, and form new sponge plants.
-Spongia officinalis, or the bath sponge, is a commercially used sponge that is found in the Mediterranean Sea.
-These sponges can reproduce sexually or asexually.
-Asexually, these sponges grow pods called survival pods or gemmules that are either detached by waves, or let off when the sponge dies.
-These pods then land and start to develop into a new sponge plant.
Sponges are hermaphrodites, which means they are all the same gender.
They do not have sexual organs, so sperm is expelled into the water, and if it happens to be ingested by another sponge of its species, then the eggs are fertilized.
-The eggs are let off into the water, and form new sponge plants.