Phylum Cnidaria Flashcards


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What is the most simple metazoan?

Cnhidarians

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What type of body symmetry do Cnidarians have?

Radial (some biradial)

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oral-aboral axis

axis in which radiate body parts are arranged around

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What level of organization do Cnidarias have?

tissue

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What are the classes of Cnidarians?

-Staurozoa
-Anthozoa
-Scyphozoa
-Cubozoa
-Hydrozoa

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How many species of Staurozoa are there?

50

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How many species of Cubozoa are there?

10

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How many species of Anthozoa are there?

6000

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How many species of Hydrozoa are there?

2700

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How many species of Scyphozoa are there?

150

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Which classes have a medusoid body form?

-Scyphozoa
-Cubozoa
-Hydrozoa

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Which classes exist only in a medusoid body form?

-Scyphozoa
-Cubozoa

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Which classes have an alternation of generations between medusoid and polyp forms?

Hydrozoa

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Which class has hexaradial or octaradial symmetry?

Anthozoa

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Which class exhibits strobilation?

Scyphozoa

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Are Cnidarians diploblastic or triploblastic?

diploblastic

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What germ layers do Cnidarians have?

endoderm and ectoderm

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Are germ layers adaptive or derived in Cnidarians?

adaptive

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Is the gastrovascular cavity of Cnidarians complete?

no

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Are Cnidarians protostomes or dueterostomes?

protostomes?

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What type of skeleton do Cnidarians tend to have?

hydrostatic

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How does the gastrovascular cavity open to the environment?

mouth

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What is the sister phylum of Cnidarians?

Ctenophora

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What are Ctenophora?

comb jellies

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What are Ctenophora and Cnidaria grouped together as?

Radiate phyla

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What is a big difference between Ctenophora and Cnidaria?

Cnidaria have cnidocytes and dimorphism is common in them

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cnidocytes

stinging cells

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dimorphism

presence in a species of more than morphological kind of individual
-polyp and medusa

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What is another name for the polyp form?

hydroid form

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How do polyps move?

they don't (sessile)

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What is another name for the medusa form?

jellyfish form

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What type of movement do medusa have?

free swimming

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What class is considered the "true jellies"?

scyphozoans

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How do polyps reproduce?

asexually

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How do medusa reproduce?

sexually

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Are medusa diploid or haploid?

diploid

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Are polyps diploid or haploid?

diploid

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Are Cnidarian gametes diploid or haploid?

haploid

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Why are hydras atypical of the class hyrdozoa?

no medusa stage

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Do hydra live in solitude or colonies?

solitude

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Are hydras freshwater or marine?

freshwater

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Is obelia marine or freshwater?

marine

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Do Obelia live in solitude or colonies?

colonies

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Are Obelia polyps or medusa bigger?

polyps

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Which species of hydrozoa are more plantlike or animal-like in appearence?

Obelia

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Is Gonionemus freshwater or marine?

marine

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Are Gonionemus polyps or medusa bigger?

medusa

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How are medusa produced?

Asexual budding

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Where are hydras found?

pools, quiet springs, and spring ponds--- underneath vegetation

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hypostome

conical area surrounded by tentacles that bears the mouth

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Where are the testes located in a hydra?

bud on its side at the oral end

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operculum

tiny lid of a cnidocyte that pops off when the nematocyst discharges

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mesoglea

thin, jelly like layer that acts as an elastic skeleton and provides strength and flexibility

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Where does extracellular digestion begin?

gastrodermis

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cnidocils

tiny hairlike triggers projecting from nematocytes,help discharge the nematocyst

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What structure gives a warty appearance on the surface of the tentacles?

cnidocytes

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basal disc

how a hydra sticks to surfaces- on the aboral surface

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nematocytes

stinging organelle of a cnidocyte

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Which cells develop to replace cnidocytes?

interstitial cells

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What type of cells make up the epidermis of hydra?

epitheliomuscular cells

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Where is the nerve net located?

Right below the epidermal layer

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intersitial cells

small dark embryonic cells that can be found at the bases of epitheliomuscular cells

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gland cells

secrete mucus onto the body

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mesoglea

noncellular layer between the epidermis and gastrodermis, elastic skeleton

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What do nutritive-muscular cells do?

-allow the hydra to change shape
-engulf food
-discharge enzymes to the gastrovascular cavity
-cilia keep food circulating

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What cells make up the gastrodermis?

nutritive-muscular cells

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What cells are found in both the epidermis and gastrodermis?

sensory cells

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monoecious

organism has both male and female reproductive parts

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dioecious

organism is either male or female

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Where are sex organs found in hydra?

epidermis

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What do testes contain?

spermatazoa

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What side of a hydra are the ovaries found?

the basal end

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Where does a hydra zygote form?

attached to the parent

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dimorphic

having multiple stages (both polyp and medusa)

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What does an Obelia colony arise from?

planula larva

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stolon

rootlike fixture used for attachment

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coenosarc

the living part of the colony

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What secretes the persarc?

the epidermis

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perisarc

thin, protective covering of the coensarc

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zooids

another name for a polyp

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hydranths

nutritive polyps

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gongangia

reproductive polyps

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Which polyp of Obelia have tentacles

hydranths

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mudusae buds

grow on a stalk in the gongangia

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pore in the gongangia young medusae escape from

gonopore

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found in protected costal and bay areas

Gonionemus

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hydrozoan medusae

hyrdromedusae

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jellyfish of the class Scyphozoa

syphomedusae

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convex/aboral surface fof a medusae

exumbrella

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concave (oral) surface of a medusae

subumbrella

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make and store nemocysts, help in extracellular digestion, act as sensory organs

tentacular bulb

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organs of equilibrium, little sacs containing calcareous secretions

statocysts

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circular shelflike membrane that aids in subumbrellar movement

velum

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suspended from the central surface of the subumbrellar cavity with the mouth at the distal end

manubrium

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surrounds the mouth (x4)

oral lobes

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Wht does the gastrovasuclar cavity contain?

gullet, stomach, four radial canals,ring canal

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is the mesoglea thicker in the medusa or hydroi form?

medusa

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moon jelly

Aurelia auria

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Is the mesoglea thicker in hydromedusae or scyphomedusae?

scyphomedusae

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lacks a velum

Scyphozoans

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body arranged uun multiples of 4

syphomedusae

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teramerous radial symmetry

arranged in furs

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Are scyphozoans monoiceous or diecous?

dieoucous

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Where d embryos develop in scyphozoans?

oral arms

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planula larvae

larvae of sscyphozoans, free swimming

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substratum

where planular larvae attach to mature

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scyphozoan polyps

scyphistomae

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buds off youn scyphoxzoan medusae

stobila

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young scyphozoan medusae

ephyrae

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lion's mane jellyfish

cyanea capiltata

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sea wasp

Chironex fleckeri

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sense organ containing a statacyst and ocellus

rhopalium

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flanks the rhopalium

lappet

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what are orl arms modifications of?

manubrium

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where re the gonads located in scyphozoan medusae

gastric pouches

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subgenitalpit

respiratory function

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digestive canal that follows the outer margin

ring cnal

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stomach and canal system that resembles a wheel

medusoid gut (scyphozoan)

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What tye of digestion do scyphozoan medusae have?

intracellular and extracellular

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What bis the most common sea anaenome on the Atlatic coast?

Metridium senile

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What class lacks a medusa?

class anthozoa

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anthozoan white thradlike structure containing nematocysts usded for defense?

acontia

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3 regions of a sea anenomae

oral idsc, basal disc, cylindrical coulumn

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smooth surfaced ciliated groove surrounding ananomae's mouth, circulates water

siphonoglyph

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peristome

smooth space between the outh and tentacles

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primary septa

separates the gastrovasular cavity into 6 chambers

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ananomoae gonads

resembles stacks of coins

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what class does coral belong to?

anthozoa

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rim of coral cup

theca

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radial paritions within the theca

sclerosepta

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Which class has both polyps and medusa, though one may supressed, velum presetnt

hydrozoa

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true jellyfish, medusa dominant, no velum, solitary

scyphozoa

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soliatry, no medusa, clusters of 8 bdy plan

staurozoa

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solitary, reduced polyp, square medusa cross section, no velum but has a velarium

cubozoa

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all polyps, no medusae, gastrovasular caivities separated by mesentaries

anthozoa