Question

Where are Archeocytes found?

Answer 1

Archeocytes:

1. Archeocytes are derived from a Greek word that means archaios-Beginning and kytos-hollow vessel.
2. These are amoeboid cells that are found in Sponges.
3. They have the ability to ingest and digest food that is caught by choanocyte collars and transport nutrients to the other cells of the sponge.
4. They are totipotent meaning they have the ability to change into all of the other types of sponge cells.
5. These ingest and digest food caught by the choanocyte collars and transport nutrients to the other cells of the sponge.
6. Archaeocytes develop into gametes in some sponges.