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Majors animal: Anatomy of Hydra

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Structure
Function
Tentacles   Defense and prey capture  
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Mouth   Ingestion of food and elimination of indigestible particles (egestion)  
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Hypostome   Elevated mound of tissue that expands or contracts to regulate size of mouth opening  
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Cnidocytes   Specialized stinging cells located in the epidermal layer of the tentacles and body wall  
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Gastrovascular cavity   Chamber within which extracellular digestion of prey occurs; only opening is through the mouth  
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Bud   Product of asexual reproduction; will fall off when mature and become a self-sufficient organism  
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Gonads   Organs for sexual reproduction; Hydra are dioecious, meaning than an organism has either testes or ovaries, but not both  
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Basal disc   Specialized region for attachment to substrate  
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Epidermis   Outer tissue layer; specialized for protection  
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Gastrodermis   Inner tissue layer; specialized for digestion  
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Mesoglea   Inert, acellular, jellylike substance that aids in supporting the body  
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