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Zooid
Zooid o"oid, a. [Zo["o]- + -oid.] (Biol.)
Pertaining to, or resembling, an animal.
Zooid
Zooid o"oid, n.
1. (Biol.) An organic body or cell having locomotion, as a
spermatic cell or spermatozooid.
2. (Zo["o]l.)
(a) An animal in one of its inferior stages of
development, as one of the intermediate forms in
alternate generation.
(b) One of the individual animals in a composite group, as
of Anthozoa, Hydroidea, and Bryozoa; -- sometimes
restricted to those individuals in which the mouth and
digestive organs are not developed.
Meaning of Zooids from wikipedia
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structures that the
zooids formed during life.
There are
correlations between the size of some
zooids and temperature.
Variations in
zooid size
within colonies...
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organism composed of
medusoid and
polypoid zooids that are
morphologically and
functionally specialized.
Zooids are
multicellular units that
develop from...
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colonies consisting of
clones called zooids that are
typically about 0.5 mm (1⁄64 in) long.
Phoronids resemble bryozoan zooids but are 2 to 20 cm (1 to 8 in)...
- made up of many
smaller units called zooids.
Although they are
morphologically quite different, all of the
zooids in a
single specimen are genetically...
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there is no
common canal connecting all
zooids.
Cephalodiscida zooids have
several arms,
while Graptolithina zooids have only one pair of arms.
Other differences...
- in a
single central row.
Other zooids link to the phorozooids,
which then
detach themselves from the nurse.
These zooids develop into gonozooids, and when...
- siphonop****, a jelly-like
marine animal, is
composed of organism-like
zooids, but the
whole structure looks and
functions much like an
animal such as...
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colony of tiny
biological components called zooids, each
having evolved with a
specific function.
Zooids cannot survive on
their own,
relying on symbiosis...
- are colonial, and
their members are
known as "
zooids",
since they are not
fully independent animals.
Zooids are
typically 1
millimetre (0.039 in) long but...
- night. They can
occur in very
dense swarms, as
solitary zooids or as colonies.
Solitary zooids usually measure 22 to 52 mm (0.87 to 2.05 in) in length...
