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What is the dispersive stage of sponges?
medusa, the polyp is the sessile stage
Who Medusa married to?
Medusa wasn't married, but she was Poseidon's girlfriend at one stage.
Who was Medusa married to?
Medusa wasn't married, but she was Poseidon's girlfriend at one stage.
Does the freshwater hydra have a medusa stage in its life cycle?
no
What Organisms which typically exhibit a polyp stage and a medusa stage belong to which class of Cnidarians?
Obelia
Do you think that the polyp stage or the medusa stage predominated in the ancestral cnidarian what implications does your answer have when interpreting the evolutionary relationships among the cnidari?
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What is a Medusa and which groups have them?
A medusa is the jellyfish stage in the phylum of Cnidaria (jellyfish, anemones, corals). It swims free, in contrast to the anemone stage. All jellyfish have an anemone stage, and all anemones have a jellyfish stage, just less noticable than their main stage, either smaller or shorter lived. Medusae are used to disperse the population, as it's free-swimming.
What is the bell shaped free living stage of cnidarians called?
In a word, medusa.Linnaeus coined the term medusa in 1752, referring to the free swimming, umbrella shaped stage of jellies. His reference was to the Greek myth of Medusa, whose hair was comprised of venomous snakes that resembled the stinging tentacles typically trailing behind this form of jelly. Not all cnidarians have a medusa stage, such as anemones, corals, and stalked polyps. However, all species that do have such a stage, are included in the sub-phylum, Medusozoa.
What major difference distinguishes the life cycles of hydrozoans and anthozoans?
Anthozoans have both a free-swimming medusa stage and a stationary polyp stage. Hydrozoans have only a polyp stage.
How do you spell medussa?
The word here may be Medusa, a snake-tressed gorgon of Greek mythology. The name medusa is also applied to the free-swimming stage of marine cnidarians (jellyfish, stinging nettles).
What is function is stage in microscope?
The stage is where you place the sample to be viewed.
What is the function of the microscope stage?
The stage holds the item to be examined.
