What are frog's purpose in the living world?

Question

Is it to eat bugs. Doesn't every living creature serve a purpose> Maybe, not?>

Answer 1

What exactly do you mean by a "purpose". As a minimum, the frog is a successful member of the amphibians, a group of vertebrates that appears to be intermediate between fish (frogs have gills as tadpoles) and higher land creatures. BTW: for all the pro-creationists who always cry that there are no intermediate fossils, the amphibians are there for the asking.

Answer 2

Frogs are raised commercially for several purposes. Frogs are used as a food source; frog legs are a delicacy in China, France, the Philippines, the north of Greece and in many parts of the American South, especially Louisiana. Dead frogs are sometimes used for dissections in high school and university anatomy classes, often after being injected with coloured plastics to enhance the contrast between the organs. This practice has declined in recent years with the increasing concerns about animal welfare.

Frogs have served as important model organisms throughout the history of science. Eighteenth-century biologist Luigi Galvani discovered the link between electricity and the nervous system through studying frogs. The African clawed frog or platanna, Xenopus laevis, was first widely used in laboratories in pregnancy assays in the first half of the 20th century. When human chorionic gonadotropin, a hormone found in substantial quantities in the urine of pregnant women, is injected into a female X. laevis, it induces them to lay eggs. In 1952 Robert Briggs and Thomas J. King cloned a frog by somatic cell nuclear transfer, the same technique that was later used to create Dolly the Sheep, their experiment was the first time successful nuclear transplantation had been accomplished in metazoans.

Frogs are used in cloning research and other branches of embryology because frogs are among the closest living relatives of man to lack egg shells characteristic of most other vertebrates, and therefore facilitate observations of early development. Although alternative pregnancy assays have been developed, biologists continue to use Xenopus as a model organism in developmental biology because it is easy to raise in captivity and has a large and easily manipulatable embryo. Recently, X. laevis is increasingly being displaced by its smaller relative X. tropicalis, which reaches its reproductive age in five months rather than one to two years (as in X. laevis), facilitating faster studies across generations. The genome sequence of X. tropicalis will probably be completed by 2015 at the latest


*** plus, they eat pesky bugs, they make good characters (the Frog Prince, Kermit, Michigan J, Principal Pixiefrog from My Gym Partner is a Monkey,etc.) and they're cute. I love frogs

Answer 3

To eat flies, mate, produce little frogs, and become food for fish and snakes.

We are all part of the food chain, my friend.

Answer 4

why frogs? What is any creature's purpose for that matter?

Answer 5

They do eat a lot of bugs...besides they provide us with frog legs....tastes just like chicken:)

Answer 6

noting

Answer 7

to kill the flies