Your job is to classify a newly discovered animal species. Your initial studies reveal that your specimen lacks tissues and organs and has no head, body symmetry, body cavity, or segmentation. To what phylum does this animal belong?

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The characteristics described match those of the phylum Porifera, which includes sponges. These organisms lack true tissues and organs and do not have body symmetry, a head, a body cavity, or segmentation.

Your Job Is to Classify a Newly Discovered Animal Species