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Definition of Gonozooid

Gonozooid
Gonozooid Gon`o*zo"oid, n. [Gr. ? offspring + E. zooid.] (Zo["o]l.) A sexual zooid, or medusoid bud of a hydroid; a gonophore. See Hydroidea, and Illust. of Campanularian.

Meaning of Gonozooid from wikipedia

- A gonozooid is any of the reproductive individuals of tunicate, bryozoan, or hydrozoan colonies that produce gametes. Gonozooids may play a role in labour...
- breaks off, the gonozooids keep growing attached to its ventral peduncle, until themselves breaking off and becoming free-living. Gonozooids are hermaphroditic...
- feeding polyps, but some are specialised reproductive structures known as gonozooids. In some species, further specialised zooids are formed. Dorit, R. L.;...
- colony are known as gonozooids. Each one is a hermaphrodite with the eggs being fertilised by sperm from another individual. The gonozooid is viviparous, and...
- gastrozooids; the individuals capable of a****ual reproduction only, the gonozooids, blastostyles; and free-living or ****ually reproducing individuals, the...
- It has a complex life cycle and exists in several forms of which the gonozooid, or mature zooid with gonads, is the most often seen. It is roughly cylindrical...
- as long as it is required for the gonozooids on their stalks to grow and detach, and then they die off too. Gonozooids detached from the phorozooid swim...
- both feeding and reproductive, called gonozooids, and others protective, called dactylozooids. The gonozooids each produce numerous tiny jellyfish by...
- so few gonozooids in one colony. The aperture in gonozooids, which is called an ooeciopore, acts as a point for larvae to exit. Some gonozooids have very...
- has their speciality of nutrition and digesting the food. Second, the gonozooid which is the reproductive polyp. Third, being the dactylozooid which function...