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Cnidarian body type with a bell and downward facing tentacles.
What is medusa?
The Portuguese Man-of-War is actually formed with a colony of individual organisms called polyps and belongs in this class.
What is Hydrozoa?
The outer cell layer in a jellyfish.
What is the ectoderm?
Budding is considered this type of reproduction.
What is asexual?
This is the stinging cell of a Cnidarian.
What is a cnidocyte?
This class includes both hard and soft corals.
What is Anthozoa?
Stinging cells are located on these structures.
What are the tentacles?
This is another word that can be used to describe the term hermaphrodite, or that a jellyfish is able to produce both sperm and eggs.
What is monoecious?
This term means separate sexes.
What is a diocious?
The mobile medusa stage is completely absent in this class of Cnidarians.
What is Anthozoa?
These are the two stages of body forms for most jellyfish.
What are the polyp and medusa.
Jellyfish release sperm and eggs, also called these, in time with the full moon.
What are gametes?
This is the middle jelly-like layer of a jellyfish.
What is mesoglea?
Box jellies with potent toxins belong in this class.
What is cubozoa?
These are the plates found on a comb jelly.
What are ctenes?
This is the name of the larva that is formed after the fusion of egg and sperm.
What is a planula?
These two types of digestion are present in Phylum Cnidaria.
intracellular and extracellular
The comb jelly belongs in this class.
What is Ctenophora?
This is the harpoon like structure located in the stinging cell.
What is the nematocyst?
In sexual reproduction, eggs or sperm are released out of this inner cavity of the jellyfish.
What is the gastrovascular cavity?