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Cnidarian A
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| acontia | defensive thread-like structures found on the base of sea anemonae, contain nematocysts |
| cnidocil | nematocyst trigger; triggerlike spine |
| cnidocytes | cnidaria get their name from this cell,holds cnidae |
| coral | anthozoan with an exoskeleton |
| Cubomedusae | poisonous jellyfish; persian god of war |
| dioecious | male and female reproductive organs in separate individuals |
| ephyra | strobila undergo strobilization to form these juvenile medusa |
| Gastrodermis | lining of the digestive cavity of cnidarians |
| gastrozoid | feeding "individual" of obelia |
| gonozoid | reproductive, produces medusa buds |
| GVC | gastrovascular cavty; blind or incomplete gut |
| hydra | Mr. trembly turned one inside out |
| Hydranth | nutritive zooid in hydroid cology |
| Medusa | floating/free swimming body for of cnidarians (jelly fish form) |
| Mesoglea | "jelly"; jellylike material that lays between the epidermis and gastrodermis |
| Monoecious | both male and female gonads are in the same organism |
| planula | ciliated freeswimming Obelia Larvaa |
| polyp | hydroid form, sessile stage cnidarian body form, aboral end fixed to substratum |
| Rhopallium | compound sensory structure of scyphozoam medusa, club shaped |
| siphonoglyph | ciliated furrow in gullet of sea anemones |
| velum | subumbrellar membrane of some jellies. Medusa differentiator (hydrozoans: have, scyphozoan: do not) |