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The stinging cells of the Hydra paralyze the daphnia.
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Do daphnia eat hydras?
No, Daphnia can not eat Hydra, Because the Hydra has tentacles to capture the Daphnia and eat it. The Daphnia therefore can not get free which means the Hydra can eat the Daphnia. The Hydra therefore has more force and can eat the Daphnia. Your answer is NO.
What is the difference between hydra and daphnia?
The hydra can produce asexually and sexually while the daphnia can only produce sexually. Also, the hydra is able to expand and eat other prey that is bigger than themself (ex-daphnia). The hydra is also able to send stinging cells to paralyze their prey so they cannot escape. The Daphnia can see while the hydra can only smell.
What does hydras eat?
The very predatory Hydra primarily feeds upon small invertebrates, such as Cyclops and Daphnia, that they pursue in the water.
What traits place the daphnia into a different phylum than the hydra or planaria?
The daphnia has jointed appendages.
What eats daphnia?
Some microscopic predators such as Hydra along with the larval stages of some insects and also fish fry fed on daphnia.
What trophic level are hydra on?
Hydra are secondary consumers, primary consumers feed off of photosynthetic organisms. Hydra eat primary consumers like daphnia for example.
If hydra is an animal that reproduces by budding a form of asexual reproduction A daphnia is an animal that reproduces through external fertilization a form of sexual reproduction Which of these?
the daphnia species FOOL
A hydra ingests a daphnia digest it and later egests some materials all these events are most closely associated with the life process know as?
nutrition
Are hydra vertebrates or invertebrates?
Hydra are invertebrates. They have no back bone/spinal column.
Is a freshwater hydra an ectotherm or an endotherm?
It's an echinoderm whick primarily lives in ponds and lives off of other smaller organisms in the water such as brine shrimp and daphnia
Do daphnia have organelles?
Yes, daphnia do have backbones.
How does hydra maintain homeostasis?
they can do it partly by using their tentacles to capture food and enter it into the digestive system which provides it with nutrients.
