Nervous systems are required by animals to respond to stimuli and have complex senses such as taste, touch, sight, smell, or sound. These are carried by nerves to and from the brain and spinal cord. Of all major animal phyla, which does not have nerves?

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Antoine Martin

Biology

8 December, 05:54

Nervous systems are required by animals to respond to stimuli and have complex senses such as taste, touch, sight, smell, or sound. These are carried by nerves to and from the brain and spinal cord. Of all major animal phyla, which does not have nerves?

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Yasmine Estes · Answer 1

Answer: Porifera

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Ingrid Jones · Answer 2

Phylum Cnidaria do not have nerves.

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Among all the major animal phyla, Phylum Cnidaria do not have a head and nerve cells and thus they do not have a central nervous system. The nervous system of the Cnidarians is a decentralized network.

Jellyfish, corals, sea pens, hydra, sea anemones, sea wasps are some of the animals belonging to this phylum.