Across
- 3. The polyp may be solitary, as in the sea anemone, or colonial, as in coral, and is sessile
- 5. a reproductive cell of an animal or plant
- 8. the inner layer of cells that serves as a lining membrane of the gastrovascular cavity of Cnidarians
- 10. a subgroup of cnidarians containging approximately 3700 species.
- 12. most corals are
Down
- 1. a form of asexual reproduction in which a new individual develops from some generative anatomical point of the parent organism.
- 2. corals produce skeletons of calcium carbonate or
- 4. a class of marine invertebrates which includes the sea anemones, stony corals and soft corals.
- 6. It is the typical form of the jellyfish.
- 7. A mound or ridge of living coral, coral skeletons, and calcium carbonate deposits from other organisms such as calcareous algae, mollusks, and protozoans
- 9. the extracellular matrix found in cnidarians like coral or jellyfish that functions as a hydrostatic skeleton.
- 11. The polyp may be solitary, as in the sea anemone, or
