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- long stem with the
attached zooids. Each
group of
zooids has a
gastrozooid. The
gastrozooid has a
tentacle used for
capturing and
digesting food. The groups...
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Contraction of
tentacles drags the prey
upward and into
range of the
gastrozooids. The
gastrozooids surround and
digest the food by
secreting digestive enzymes...
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large gastrozooids. They
primarily consume large copepods, some
smaller copepods, and a
variety of
other large, non-copepod prey.
Gastrozooid length...
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extends into a cup
shape surrounding the polyp. Most of the
polyps are
gastrozooids or
feeding polyps, but some are
specialised reproductive structures known...
- co-ordinate to pump
water Body
pulsates to pump
water Feeding Palpons and
gastrozooids ingest prey, feed
other zooids Tentacles trap prey, p**** it to mouth...
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grows out of the
holdfast and, eventually, a hydranth, also
known as a
gastrozooid (an
individual polyp specializing in feeding)
forms on the
anterior end...
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feature of cnidarians. For example,
Obelia has
feeding individuals, the
gastrozooids; the
individuals capable of a****ual
reproduction only, the gonozooids...
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feeding and reproduction. In Physalia,
these structures, such as the
gastrozooid, are
concentrated on the
ventral side of the pneumatop****.
These families...
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colonies tend to have
three specialities and functions.
First being the
gastrozooid,
which has
their speciality of
nutrition and
digesting the food. Second...
