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What are the stinging cells located on the tentacles of a jellyfish?
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Jellyfish sting their prey using nematocysts, also called cnidocysts, stinging structures located in specialized cells called cnidocytes.
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Where Are the Stinging Cells of a Jellyfish Located?
The stinging cells in a jellyfish are located in it's tentacles.
The stinging cells located on the tentacles of jellyfish are called?
Cnidocytes
What are facts about jellyfish tentacles?
Jellyfish tentacles can over 100 feet long and have stinging cells.
What is 1 cell that a jellyfish has?
One cell that a jellyfish has is nematocysts(stinging cells on tentacles).
What are 3 characteristics of cnidaria?
3 characteristics of cnidarians are having tentacles, cnidocytes, and digestion. Cnidara have poisonous stinging cells and soft bodies. Stinging cells can be found in the tentacles of a jellyfish.
How do tentacles help a jellyfish get its food?
Jellyfish tentacles contain stinging cells, which can cause minor irratation or even death to humans or creatures. They than use their tentacles to their food up to their mouths where it is than eaten.
What are the stinging cells in the tentacles called?
Jellyfish sting their prey using nematocysts, also called cnidocysts, stinging structures located in specialized cells called cnidocytes.
Examples of stinging cells?
Jellyfish sting their prey using nematocysts, also called cnidocysts, stinging structures located in specialized cells called cnidocytes.
Can a jellyfish eat a fish?
Yes, they do all the time, even though jellyfish do not have brains, their stinging tentacles are near invisible in water. Unsuspecting fish swim into these tentacles and are paralyzed by the stinging cells that the jellyfish contains which affect the nervous system. The fish is then drawn into the 'head' of the jellyfish and digested.
Identify the organisms that have tentacles with stinging cells?
Jellyfish, Portuguese man of war, sea wasps.
What is the difference between tentacles and stinging cells?
Stinging cells are cells that "sting" and pour toxins into the bloodstream, and tentacles are long appendages that have no relation whatsoever to stinging cells.
Does the bell on the jellyfish sting?
no only the tentacles have stinging cells Yes, in some species the bell itself contains toxin.
