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    Phylum Cnidaria includes jellyfish, sea anemones, and corals. They have radial symmetry, a hydrostatic skeleton, and a gastrovascular cavity surrounded by two tissue layers. They use stinging cells called nematocysts to capture prey. Cnidarians can take the form of a medusa with tentacles hanging downward or a polyp with tentacles facing upward. Main groups include jellyfish, sea anemones, and corals. All are carnivorous except corals, which are filter feeders. Cnidarians reproduce through a process called alternation of generations.

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    Phylum Cnidaria includes jellyfish, sea anemones, and corals. They have radial symmetry, a hydrostatic skeleton, and a gastrovascular cavity surrounded by two tissue layers. They use stinging cells called nematocysts to capture prey. Cnidarians can take the form of a medusa with tentacles hanging downward or a polyp with tentacles facing upward. Main groups include jellyfish, sea anemones, and corals. All are carnivorous except corals, which are filter feeders. Cnidarians reproduce through a process called alternation of generations.

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    Phylum Cnidaria: Simple Animal #2

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    Phylum Cnidaria includes jellyfish, sea anemones, and corals. They have radial symmetry, a hydrostatic skeleton, and a gastrovascular cavity surrounded by two tissue layers. They use stinging cells called nematocysts to capture prey. Cnidarians can take the form of a medusa with tentacles hanging downward or a polyp with tentacles facing upward. Main groups include jellyfish, sea anemones, and corals. All are carnivorous except corals, which are filter feeders. Cnidarians reproduce through a process called alternation of generations.

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    Simple Animal #2

    Phylum Cnidaria
    Basic Facts
    Name meaning: stinging cells
    Invertebrates
    Marine
    Radial symmetry
    Hydrostatic skeleton (define!!)
    Tissue level organization
    Contain a gastrovascular cavity (what is
    this?)
    Basic Facts cont….
    All Cnidarians contain stinging cells
    Stinging cells are called
    nematocysts.
    Nematocysts contain
    neurotoxins/poison to immobilize
    prey
    Body Forms

    Medusa: Tentacles and Polyp: Tentacles


    gastrovascular cavity and gastrovascular
    face downward cavity face upward
    Free-swimming Attached
    Main Groups
    1. Jellyfish
    Medusa body form
    Mouth and gastrovascular cavity
    located on posterior
    surface
    May be phosphorescent
    Carnivores
    Examples: Portuguese Man-o-War

    Box Jellys
    2. Sea Anemones
    Polyp body form
    Sessile in adult life
    Live in colonies
    May be symbiotic
    (what does that mean?)
    Carnivores
    3. Corals
    Polyp form
    Sessile in adult form
    Grow in large colonies
    or reef systems
    Secrete own shell
    (calcium product)
    Filter feeders
    Symbiotic with algae
    Reproduction
    Special type of reproduction called
    Alternation of Generations

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