Across
- 3. free-swimming or crawling larval type common in many species of the phylum Cnidaria
- 6. a class within the phylum Cnidaria, sometimes referred to as the "true jellyfish
- 8. a collagen-rich matrix that looks like jelly found in the body of sponges, Cnidaria (jellyfish and polyps) and Ctenaria (or Ctenophora)
- 9. taxonomic class of individually very small, predatory animals, some solitary and some colonial, most of which inhabit saline water.
- 10. the ability of an organism to move independently, using metabolic energy.
- 11. a reproductive gland (such as an ovary or testis) that produces gametes.
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- 1. an explosive cell containing one giant secretory organelle called a cnidocyst (also known as a cnida ( pl. cnidae) or nematocyst) that can deliver a sting to other organisms.
- 2. minute, elongated, or spherical capsule produced exclusively by members of the phylum Cnidaria
- 4. its lack of a means of self-locomotion. Sessile organisms for which natural motility is absent are normally immobile.
- 5. one of two principal body forms occurring in members of the animal phylum Cnidaria
- 7. a class of marine invertebrates which includes the sea anemones, stony corals and soft corals
- 8. A free-swimming sexual form of a coelenterate such as a jellyfish, typically having an umbrella-shaped body with stinging tentacles around the edge