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Zoology
radiate animals
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Science
Undergraduate 2
11/11/2009

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Budding
Definition
reproduction in which the offspring arises as an outgrowth from the parent and is initally smaller then the parent
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Cnidae
Definition
stinging or adhesive organells formed within cndocytes in phylum cnidaria
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Dimorphism
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existance within a species of 2 distinct forms according to color, sex, size, organ structure or behavior
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Nematocyst
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stinging organel or cnidorians
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Rhopalium
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one of he maginal club shaped sense organs of certian jellyfish
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Statocyst
Definition
sense oran of eqilibrium
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Velum
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A membrane on subumbrellar surface of jellyfish of class hydrozoa
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atolls
Definition
a coral reef surroundng a lagoon
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cindocytes
Definition
modified intersital cell that...
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collolast
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a glue secreting cell on the tentacles of ctenopheres
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gonagium
Definition
reproductive polyp
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hydrohiza
Definition
rootlike stolon that attaches a hydroid to its substrate
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hypostome
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marnubium
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the portien projects from the oral side of a jellyfish medusa, bearing a mouth
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medusa
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a jellyfish or free swimming stage in the life cycle of cndorians
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ocelli
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eye spot
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operculum
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a lid that covers the sapsul that holds the nematocysts
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pedalium
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flattened blade at the ase of the tenticales in cubozoan medusae
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pneumatophore
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a gas float of the portuguese man of war and some outer siphonophones which are specalized hydrozoan colonies
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protandons
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when the animal who is monecious produces their male ogans and products befor they produce their female ones
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siphonoglph
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ciliated furrow in the gullet of sea anonomes
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strobilia
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a stage in the development of the scyphozan jellyfish
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