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Definition of Gonozooids

Gonozooid
Gonozooid Gon`o*zo"oid, n. [Gr. ? offspring + E. zooid.] (Zo["o]l.) A sexual zooid, or medusoid bud of a hydroid; a gonophore. See Hydroidea, and Illust. of Campanularian.

Meaning of Gonozooids from wikipedia

- biology, Gonozooids are any of the reproductive individuals of Tunicates, Bryozoan, or Hydrozoan colonies that produce gametes. Gonozooids may play a...
- both feeding and reproductive, called gonozooids, and others protective, called dactylozooids. The gonozooids each produce numerous tiny jellyfish by...
- feeding polyps, but some are specialised reproductive structures known as gonozooids. In some species, further specialised zooids are formed. Dorit, R. L.;...
- as long as it is required for the gonozooids on their stalks to grow and detach, and then they die off too. Gonozooids detached from the phorozooid swim...
- colony are known as gonozooids. Each one is a hermaphrodite with the eggs being fertilised by sperm from another individual. The gonozooid is viviparous, and...
- different functions, such as digestion (gastrozooids), reproduction (gonozooids) and hunting (dactylozooids). A fourth type of zooid is the pneumatop****...
- in the same colony. In some species, the reproductive polyps, known as gonozooids (or "gonotheca" in thecate hydrozoans) bud off a****ually produced medusae...
- so few gonozooids in one colony. The aperture in gonozooids, which is called an ooeciopore, acts as a point for larvae to exit. Some gonozooids have very...
- aid in the growth of this organism by feeding. The reproductive polyp gonozooids have medusa buds. These medusa buds differentiate Obelia from others in...
- prey and the expulsion of wastes. The mouth is surrounded by a ring of gonozooids and dactylozooids. Tentacles are only found on the dactylozooids, which...