Predict what would happen to a sponge that could no longer produce spicules.

A. Intracellular digestion would cease.
B. Water circulation would be greatly impeded.
C. Gametes could no longer be produced.
D. Vulnerability to predation would increase.


D. Vulnerability to predation would increase.

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