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phylum cnidaria
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Undergraduate 2
03/13/2012

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Cnidocytes
Definition
specialized cells used for defense, feedand and attachment. found in Cnidarians
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Nematocyts
Definition
stinging cells within cnidocytes
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Most cnidaria are____
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marine
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Exhibit ____ with an oral and aboral end and gastrovscular cavity
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radial symmetry
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Have _____level of organization
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Diploblastic (two tissue layers) gastrodermis and epidermis seperated by mesoglea
Term
Most cnidarians possess 2 body forms
Definition
asexual sessile polyps which reproduce by budding. (budding forms more polyps or may produce swimming medusae.
Dioecious medusa are free swimming and release eggs and sperm. (fertilization results in planula which settles to the substrate and forms a polyp.
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maintence funtions1
Definition
gastrodermis lines gastrovascular cavity where digestion, exchange of respiratory gas and wastes, and dischare of gametes occurs.
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Mainenance functions 2
Definition
Material enter/exit through the oral end of the gastrovascular cavity. Food is captured by nematocysts on tentacles and brought to mouth. Gastrodermal cells phagocytize food. Wasted are ejected by peristaltic contractions of nutrive-muscular cells
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bouyancy
Definition
support from water around them-free floating in currents
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Hydrostatic skeleton
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water filled gastrovascular cavity against which contractile elements (epitheliomuscular cells) of body wall act _pulsating movements of medusa.
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Somersaulting
Definition
from base to tentacles or may move as an inchworm using base and tentacles =polyps.
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most primitive nerous elements in the animal kingdom. Located below epidermis, near mesolea and interconnect into a 2 dimensional nerve net.
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cnidarian nerve cells.
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concucts impulses around the body in response to localized stimulus.
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nerve net
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difference between weak and strong stimulas spplied to tentale
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weak causes tentacle to contract.
strong causes entire polyp to contrace.
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Small, commom, most are marine, but some freshwater representatives.
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Class hydrozoa
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Many have colonial polyps specialized for feeding, producing medusae, or defense
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class hydrozoa
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nematocysts only in the epidermis.
Gametes are epidermal and released outside the body-not in gastrovasuclar cavity.
Acellular mesoglea
Definition
distinguished feature of hydrozoa
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Medusa stage predominates. Shallow marine waters
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Class hydrozoa: gonionemus
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Margin of medusa projects inward forming shelf-leke velum+jet propulsion system
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Class hydrozoa:gonionemus
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Mouth at end of tube like manubrium-gastrovascular cavity- to 4 radial canals- encircling ring cananl
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Class hydrozoa:gonionemus
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concentration of nerve cells-nerve ring- encircles the margin of the medusa. coordinates swimming movements
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Class hydrozoa: Gonionemus
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All members are marine, medusa is the dominant stage. True jellyfish
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Class Scyphozoa
Term
medusae lacks velum
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Class Scyphozoa
Term
mesoglea contains amoeboid mesenchyme cells
Definition
Class Scyphozoa
Term
Cnidocytes found in both gastrodermis and epidermis
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Class Scyphozoa
Term
Gametes are gastrodermal origin
Definition
Class Scyphozoa
Term
some line the stinging nettle have dangerous stings
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Class Scyphozoa
Term
Aurelia
Definition
common scyphozoan
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Plankton feeder – sinks in water, microscopic organisms trapped in mucus. Cilia carry food to margin of medusa. Four oral lobes hang from manubrium, scrape food from margin which is carried to the mouth
Definition
Aurelia
Term
Have eight specialized sensory structures or rhopalia, each with two olfactory pits, a statocyst and photoreceptors (ocelli
Definition
Aurelia
Term
Dioecious, gametes exit mouth, eggs lodge in oral lobes, fertilization occurs, planula develops
Definition
Aurelia
Term
May be colonial or solitary
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Class Anthozoa: Sea anemones & corals
Term
Lack medusae.
Cnidocytes lack cnidocils.
Definition
Class Anthozoa: Sea anemones & corals
Term
Polyps differ from Hydrozoan in that:
Mouth leads to a pharynx which leads to gastrovascular cavity.
Mesenteries, which bear cnidocytes & gonads on free edges, divide gastrovascular cavity into sections.
Mesoglea contains amoeboid mesenchyme cells
Definition
Class Anthozoa: Sea anemones & corals
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Limited locomotion – glide on pedal disks, crawl on sides, walk with tentacles. May float using a gas bubble.
Definition
Sea anemone life strategies
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Feed on invertebrates & fishes using tentacles to capture prey
Definition
Sea anemone life strategies
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Sexual & asexual reproduction
Asexual = piece of pedal disk breaks away to form new polyp or fission may occur.
Sexual –if monoecious male gametes mature 1st so self fertilization does not occur
Definition
Sea anemone life strategies
Term
Stony corals are colonial polyps that secrete calcium carbonate exoskeleton for protection
Definition
Class Anthozoa: Corals
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Many have developed symbiotic relationships with algae (zoozanthellae) that reside within the epidermis or gastrodermis. They photosynthesize producing organic carbon for the coral polyps. Metabolism by polyps provide algae with nitrogen & phosphorus
Definition
Class Anthozoa: Corals
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Coral bleaching occurs when environmental disturbances kills zoozanthellae
Definition
Class Anthozoa: Corals
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