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How do caecilians protect themselves?
Cnidarians are unique because they contain cnidocytes when no other organism does. Cnidocytes are cells inside the epidermis of the tentacles and these cells contain organelles called cnidea. There are different types of cnidea in cnidarians such as nematocysts which contain a stinging venom to paralyze prey and spirocysts which contain sticky threads to capture prey.
Why sloths important?
How can sloths important? It is a bad habbit.
Why eyes are important to survival in wild animals?
Why and how eye is important for survival of life
Why are ocelots important?
They are important because they need to keep its prey's population low.
Why is penguins habbiatat important to narure?
It is important to nature because who will live in cold places
Why are cnidocytes important to sea jelly?
they are important because they help the sea jellies catch their prey.
Why are cnidocytes important to a sea jelly?
they are important because they help the sea jellies catch their prey.
Are cnidocytes significant to fundamental processs for cnidarians?
Cnidocytes are important to cnidarians as these are the stinging cells used to catch prey and defend from enemies. It is a toxin which can disable prey and provide protection from adversaries. This can be used as a harpoon, sticky surface or lasso type action.
What is the stinging tentacle on a hydra called?
Cnidocytes
Cnidarians possess unique cells called cnidocytes that are important because?
they contain a long, barbed or sticky stinging thread used for capturing prey
Cnidocytes help a cnidarian survive by?
Paralyzing prey
The stinging cells located on the tentacles of jellyfish are called?
Cnidocytes
What are cnidocytes?
cnidocytes are specilized cells where nematocysts are storednematocysts are poisonous harpoons that are stored like coiled springscnidocytes are unique to the phylum Cnidaria (corals, sea anemones, hydrae, jellyfish, etc.).
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.
What are the fingerlike extensions with specialized stinging cells found on all cnidarians?
They're called cnidocytes. ^^
What would happen if a cnidarians lost their cnidocytes?
it would make them less capable of capturing food
Which group of organisms is found in oceans and use stinging cells called cnidocytes to capture prey?
coral
