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Are sea anemones (beadletactinia equina anemones in particular) r or k selected species and why?
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What is the scientific name of sea anemones?
They are from the metridium species
What are unique about Anemones?
Anemone is a genus of about 120 species of flowering plants in the family Ranunculaceae, native to the temperate zones. The reason why Anemones are unique is because of how many species of Anemone there are.
What species of sea anemones are there?
Atlantic Snakelocks Anemone (Anemonia viridis), and Hormathid sea anemones (ex. Stylobates aenus) are just two of many. The sea anemones share a class, Anthozoa, with the corals. There are roughly 6,500 estimated species in the Anthozoa class.
What is the difference between r selected and k selected species?
R- Selected species have high population densities while k-selected species have lower population densities
Do sea anemones hibernate?
Anemones, also known as windflowers, are a diverse group, with various species blooming in spring and fall. Anemones display variation in their daily activity patterns, but it is not clear whether all of them sleep.
Are there anemones in Canada?
Yes absolutely. Canada is connected to three oceans; the Pacific, Arctic and Atlantic. All three of the Coasts of these oceans have species of anemones living in them.
Definition of a mutualism and a example?
Mutualism is a symbiotic relationship in which both species benefit.In other words, two species help each other out. Note that neither species is harmed in the relationship.The usual example is: Sea anemones protect clownfish from predators, and the clownfish defend the anemones from butterflyfish.
Is a anemone parasite?
Many species of wentletrap sea snails attack sea anemones. Some species swallow small and juvenile sea anemones whole, while others apparently nibble on tentacles and tissues of large sea anemones. Many sea slugs that prey on sea anemones, such as the rainbow nudibranch, Dendronotus iris, do not kill their prey, but merely shear off a few tentacles with each attack.
What does the sea anemone weigh?
There are hundreds of species of anemones, of all sorts of sizes and weights.
This is the ceasing of the existence of any particular species?
When a particular species ceases to exist, that species has gone extinct. An extinct species has no living family members.
What is an r-selcted species?
An r-selected species is an animal with a high growth rate and offspring with a lower chance of living past adulthood. Examples of r-selected species are small rodents, mammals and grass.
How many babies do sea anemones have?
It would depend on the species. The majority of anemones reproduce sexually; males release sperm that triggers egg release by females. At least one species reproduces asexually by budding, and produce only a few offspring.
