CNIDARIA Flashcards
knife -
aria -
knife - nettle
aria - like or connected with
body plan of cnidaria
a. dimorphic
b. asconoid
c. leuconoid
a. dimorphic
sessile, hydroid form
a. polyp
b. medusa
a. polyp
free-living, jellyfish form
a. polyp
b. medusa
b. medusa
polyps and medusa forms both retain ______ body plan
sac -like
medusa is essentially _________ with tubular body widened and flattened into bell shape
unattached polyp
tubular body with the mouth directed upward and surrounded by tentacles
a. polyp
b. medusa
a. polyp
bell or umbrella shaped and exhibit tetramerous symmetry (arranged in fours)
a. polyp
b. medusa
b. medusa
mouth centered on the concave side (subumbrellar region) directed downward into frilly lobes that may extend beneath the bell
a. polyp
b. medusa
b. medusa
reproduce asexually by budding, fission, or pedal laceration
a. polyp
b. medusa
a. polyp
_______ equipped with statocysts (orientation) and ocelli (light sensors)
a. polyp
b. medusa
b. medusa
In polyp, if a bud detaches from the polyp that made it, it forms a _____
a. sibling
b. clone
c. colony
b. clone
If a bud remains attached to the polyp that made it, it becomes a ______, with shared gastrovascular cavity
a. sibling
b. clone
c. colony
c. colony
unique, found in tentacles
a. sensory cell
b. barb
c. cnidocytes
c. cnidocytes
can inject toxins for prey capture or defense
a. cnidocytes
b. operculum
c. nematocyst
c. nematocyst