Essays Tagged: "tentacles"

... gradually coating the entire surface of the body, rubbing against the stinging tentacles for longer periods on each successive contact. This acclimation process takes about... drive away hungry butterflyfish (Chaetodon spp) who would nibble the anemone's tentacles. They also perform housekeeping n duties such as the clownfish diligently picks...-like, immobile, underwater creature that snatches a passerby with its waving, poisonous tentacles called nemotycysts.! Yet, clown fish don't seem to mind the danger...

... travel into the water column and become available for capture. Keeping the tentacles retracted during the day may also help corals avoid predation, protect themselves...: nematocyst adhesion and mucus entrapment (Sebens and Johnson, 1991). Nematocysts on the tentacles and mesentarial filaments can be used to sting prey and move it... dense particles makes them deviate from the water flow and impact the tentacles), and by gravitational deposition (gravity causes heavy particles to fall into the...

... body and dictates a vast majority of its movements and actions. The tentacles contain smaller music labels too weak to escape from such pervasive control...

... has unique swivelling hooks on the clubs at the ends of its tentacles. However, the closest relatives of Architeuthidae seem to be the small, deep... smaller whales. They capture their prey by using their two long feeding tentacles which are shot out to grip the prey, suckers on the tips... four rows. The suckers cover the inner surface of the arms and tentacles, and are about five to five and a half centimeters in diameter...

..., between them is a jelly like substance called mesoglea. oTo feed, their tentacles capture prey and parylize it with coiled stingers called nematocysts, located in... sediment, and other pump water through their body and scour floor with tentacles. oNirudinea – Theyre leeches and have no setae. They have suckers on each..., mesoglea, and the endoderm. 4.What are the coiled stingers on their tentacles called? Nematocysts 5.What is the hollow gut of the cnidarian known...

... cells are found throughout the epidermis but are particularly abundant in the tentacles. Cnidocytes contain a cilium or modified cilium structure with a kinetosome at... to inject toxins into prey. Cnidarians possess nematocysts that are abundant in tentacles. These function to either entangle, sting, or adhere to prey. However, in... two phyla Cnidaria and Ctentophora makeup the radiate animals. Most radiates have tentacles or oral extensible projections around the oral end that are armed with...

... to draw food in from the surrounding waters of the oceans. the tentacles of teh coral are armed with special stinging structures. Those special stinging... structures are called nematosysts. The tentacle's nematocysts paralyzes th etiny prey that the coral eats. The coral's major food are small marine organisms...

... pulling the ctenophore long with them. The ctenophore simply reels in this tentacle and devours the salp. Another type hunts mouth wide open and forward... carnivorous and feed on copepods and salps. One type of ctenophore has tentacles that they trail behind them like fishing lines. When a salp happens...

..., however, is not yet understood.         The fish Nomeus gronvii lives among the tentacles of the man-of-war. This fish, which is eight centimeters long... immune to the man-of-war's toxin. It will eat the tentacles, which will grow back, as its main source of food. Although it..., and move the man-of-war along. Below the bladder, hang long stringy tentacles, that can reach a length of up to fifty meters. The...

... sea anemones are touched, they respond by flattening out and pulling their tentacles inward. This type of movement indicates coordination of nerves and muscles, something... dot the maritime shores. Anyone unlucky enough to brush up against the tentacles trips the triggering mechanism on the nematocyst and receives the tiny stinging... can be paralyzed. Thousands of nematocysts can be found on a single tentacle. Beach-goers may have painful memories of toxin-laden nematocysts. Thousands of...

... is the ability of the percula clownfish to live among the stinging tentacles called nematocysts of the anemones without being harmed (Elliott, 1996). Gohar’s... A. percula would engage in a swim-like dance, slightly touching the tentacles to certain areas of its body until full acclimation occurs (Lee, 2003... of the female. Aside from the protection of the host anemone’s tentacles, the males protect and fan the eggs throughout the 6-7 days...

.... During cellular mitosis, the centrosome would split in half and the short tentacle like protrusions that called microtubules would stretch out to opposite parts of... the situation arises. The golgi is simply a membrane sack with small tentacle like appendages that uses active transport to propel itself around until it... the cell splits, the centrosome would divide into two half circles with tentacles coming out of the circular ends but then it would rebuild its...

... vulture demon. She turned her head around, quickly. Three rogues and a tentacle beast were there. A spirit was floating nearby, and it had six... old-d," said the vulture demon. "She is a bewitched," said the tentacle demon. "She can't be," said the spirit, "She is young. The..., "You have that spell in reverse. You stay young." "But..." "BUT NOTHING!" boomed the tentacle beast. You will aid us on our journey!" Jeroba stared...

... the things emerging out of them where not my siblings. They had tentacles sticking out of their heads, long dark legs and huge orange sail... could be doing to my siblings? And what had happened to my siblings, sails and tentacles, what could this mean? Did I have sails and... tentacles? There were too many questions with no answers. My body was still weak and numb but a little better than before. My back was...

... are located within the cnidocytes from which their name is derived. The tentacles are then used to draw the cnidarians prey into their mouths. Next... a nerve net. The nerve net extends from the mouth to the tentacles. Also, Polyps can detect certain substances such as sugars and amino acids...

... some are different. Lance tried attacking it but with no avail. The tentacles would just retreat and come back with reinforcements. Soon, deciding that it... planet was a giant thing covering it, and it had thousands of tentacles reaching to swallow the planet whole. As he stood there sizing up...

... group of animals that include sea anemones and jellyfish. These animals have tentacles with stinging cells and a single opening in the body. This group... a single opening leading to the stomach, surrounded by a ring of tentacles.) Each polyp makes a small skeletal cup, called a calyx, which it...

... patterns.         Clownfish live in Anemone, which are fish-eating plants with poisonous tentacles. The anemone keeps the fish protected, and provides food. Clownfish eat dead... anemone tentacles, plankton, shellfish, and left overs from the anemone. They clean the anemone, and sometimes scare away predators. Some predators include humans and the...

... leaves come in many shapes and sizes that are covered in tiny tentacles with drops of sticky fluid on the tips that glistens in the... colour and aroma it is glued to the leaf by the sticky tentacles. The more it struggles the more it becomes trapped. The leaf then...

... mouths are represented by a single opening. This opening is surrounded by tentacles with stinging devices used for defense. These devices are called nematocysts. These... tentacles help to catch in prey. Phyla: Echinodermata Within this phyla sea stars, sea lilies, sea urchins, sea cucumbers, and brittle stars are located. They...