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Are jellyfish a carbon based life form?

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  • 1 decade ago
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    oh yah. carbon is an organic compound. everything requires carbon in order to live

    "Carbon is essential to all known living systems, and without it life as we know it could not exist"

  • Jon G
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    1 decade ago

    Yes it is. All living things (moving or not) as we know it are carbon-based life forms.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    yes they are, they are part of a phylum called Cnidaria which includes sea anemones, corals and jellyfish.

    There are known silicon based life forms!

  • 1 decade ago

    yeah. everything is.

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