CNIDARIA Flashcards
(34 cards)
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
mostly marine, colonial with asexual polyp, and sexual medusa stages as in Obelia sp. (dimorphic)
a. Class Hydrozoa
b. Class Syphozoa
c. Class Staurozoa
a. Class Hydrozoa
“Cup Animals”
a. Class Hydrozoa
b. Class Syphozoa
c. Class Staurozoa
b. Class Syphozoa
Lack shelf like velum found in hydrozoan medusae - not an efficient swimmer
a. Class Hydrozoa
b. Class Syphozoa
c. Class Staurozoa
b. Class Syphozoa
They have no medusa stage and are commonly called stauromedusans
a. Class Hydrozoa
b. Class Syphozoa
c. Class Staurozoa
c. Class Staurozoa
Solitary polyp body that is stalked; attached to seaweeds and objects on the sea bottom
a. Class Hydrozoa
b. Class Syphozoa
c. Class Staurozoa
c. Class Staurozoa
base is a rootlike stolon or hydrorhiza
a. Class Hydrozoa
b. Class Syphozoa
c. Class Staurozoa
a. Class Hydrozoa
Margin of the umbrella has indetations, each bearing a pair of lappets
a. Class Hydrozoa
b. Class Syphozoa
c. Class Staurozoa
b. Class Scyphozoa
Medusa is the predominant stage
a. Class Cubozoa
b. Class Anthozoa
c. Sea anemone
a. Class Cubozoa
_______ house of three sets of unique eyes – two type of ocelli and one set of camera type eyes with cornea and lens
Rhopalia