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Biology 100 Study Skills
18 September 2015
function in digestion and absorption. The grasshoppers digestive tube is extended between two
openings, a mouth and an anus, as opposed to the hydra which only has one opening. This tube is
called a complete digestive tract or an alimentary canal. These means of digestion and absorption
in the grasshopper work well in its own processes, specifically in that it can digest larger forms
of nutrients. It is also quicker and more efficient than the hydra in this aspect due to its several
chambers. An animal with an alimentary canal can ingest food while earlier meals are still being
digested, a feat that is likely to be difficult or inefficient for an animal with a gastrovascular
cavity. (Reese et al., 900)
The hydra and the grasshopper both relate to the necessity of digestion, absorption, and
the distribution of nutrients throughout the animals bodies. The two organisms both preform
extra cellular digestion, a digestive process that occurs outside of the animals bodies in
compartments. The hydras body plan is not as efficient as the grasshoppers due to its lack of an
alimentary canal, or complete digestive tract this specified cavity can have specialized regions
that carry out digestion and absorption in a stepwise fashion. It cannot perform simultaneous
ingestion, digestion, and excretion because digestion begins in the gastrovascular cavity and is
completed intracellularly after small food particles are engulfed by specialized cells of the
gastrodermis. (Reese et al., 899)
Works Cited
Reese, B. Ruth, et al. Campbell Biology 10th Edition. Boston, MA. 2011. Print.