BIOL 111 Study Guide - Final Guide: Clitellum, Peristomium, Seaweed

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Possess special stinging cells (cnidocytes) assist in capture of prey and defence. Body plan: 2 layers of cells surrounding a central cavity. Radially symmetrical with arms or tentacles radiating outward from mouth. Polyp: sessile, oral surface upward and aboral attached to a substrate. Some show both forms some only show one. Usually alternate between motile sexual medusa stage and sessile asexual polyp stage. Serves as both the entrance and exit to the. Gastrovascular cavity: tentacles: food catching arms that radiate from hypostome, body column: mesoglea between two tissue layers of cells. These impulses are sent through the nerve net: gland cells: located in epidermis of basal disc. Secrete: interstitial cells: act like stem cells (are found between, reproduction: sexual or asexual epitheliomuscular cells in the epidermis) substance to anchor foot to substrate. Sexual: union of sperm and egg producing a zygote. Only some hydra are hermaphrodites (occurs in the fall).

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