What is the advantage to an animal of having extracellular digestion within a gut cavity rather than intracellular digestion?

What will be an ideal response?


Extracellular digestion involves releasing enzymes to digest something before it is taken into individual cells. This enables organisms to consume things that are larger than they are.

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(a) English. (b) Latin. (c) Italian. (d) French.

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What favored the transition from a four-legged gait to bipedalism?

What will be an ideal response?

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In prokaryotes, the structure that assembles proteins is the

A. endospore. B. cell membrane. C. ribosome. D. lysosome. E. plasmid.

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Cells grow primarily during which of the following cell-cycle phases?

A) G0 B) G1 C) G2 D) M E) S

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