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Solitary zooids usually measure 22 to 52 mm (0.

Members of this family have small zooids that form encrusting colonies.

All zooids in a colony are genetically identical, but fulfill specialized functions.

The operculum, which normally closes the orifice when the zooids tentacles are retracted, has been modified.

Pyrosomes are cylindrical or cone-shaped colonies up to long, made up of hundreds to thousands of individuals, known as zooids.

The growing oozooids are eventually released from the parent blastozooids, and then continue to feed and grow as the solitary asexual phase, closing the life cycle of salps.

include both sexual and asexual zooids in three sequential "generations".

free-walled (or double-walled) cyclostomes, the exterior frontal walls of the zooids are uncalcified; autozooids have either a polygonal aperture bounded by.

On a smaller scale, however, each colony can move itself slowly by the process of jet propulsion, created by the coordinated beating of cilia in the branchial baskets of all the zooids, which also create feeding currents.

composed of medusa-like or polyp-like zooids, or both (hence they are trimorphic).

colony of tiny biological components called zooids, each having evolved with a specific function.

Phoronids resemble bryozoan zooids but are 2 to 20 cm (1 to 8 in).

Other zooids link to the phorozooids, which then detach themselves from the nurse.

Synonyms:

being, organism,

Antonyms:

prokaryote, eukaryote, stander,