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What is an upside down bowl shaped cnidarian?
You have described body plan of a medusa...... and a jellyfish is a good example of a medusa.
What are a medusa shape and a polyp shape look like?
A medusa looks like an umbrella and a polyp any idea!
Cnidarians have what type of body plan?
Yes. One body type is called the polyp. It is cylindrical in shape, having a mouth at the top surrounded by tentacles with stinging cells. Polyps attach to substrates. Coral polyps and sea anemones are examples of the polyp body type. The other body type is called the medusa, which has a bell or umbrella shape with the mouth facing down and surrounded by tentacles with stinging cells. Jellyfish are the best known examples of the medusa body type.
What are the 2 basic types of body plans in cniddarians?
The first body plan is a Medusa bosy plan which is like a jellyfish the one above is a medusa. the mouth it located at the bottom of the body. The appendeges are also located at the bottom. A polyp (on the right) ,like a sea anemone, has the appendeges at the top along with the mouth. They are also attached to solid ground unlike Medusas.
What is the body form of a jellyfish?
Medusa body form. Medusa-Umbrella shaped, tentacles hanging down. Swim about.
Do Jellyfish spend most of their life as a polyp shape or a medusa shape?
true
An animal that is irregular in shape has a body plan that exhibits what type of symmetry?
balls
What is a type of body plan that has no definite shape?
radial smmatree
Is a hydra body design acoelomate?
No a Hydra is non a pseudocoelmate, acoelomate, or eucoelomate. The basic body plan is a sac with central digestive compartment, the gastrovascular cavity. A single opening functions as mouth and anus. There are 2 variations on this body plan: the sessile polyp and the motile medusa
What are the two body forms of cnidarians?
1. Polyp 2. Medusa
What is the body shape of a stingray?
A large diamond shape in plan, tapering to a longish barbed tail. This fish has no great thickness.
What are two forms of shape within cnidarians?
poly and medusa
