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    Hydra, Budding Hydra, Spermaries Hydra, Ovary Obelia SP

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    This laboratory activity document provides instructions and objectives for students to examine various specimens from the phylum Cnidaria including Hydra, Obelia sp., and preserved soft and hard corals under a microscope in order to observe and identify their key anatomical structures and reproductive modes. Students are asked to draw and label the parts of different specimens, compare the body forms and life cycles of different cnidarian classes, and answer questions testing their understanding of cnidarian anatomy, physiology, and ecology.

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    Hydra, Budding Hydra, Spermaries Hydra, Ovary Obelia SP

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    This laboratory activity document provides instructions and objectives for students to examine various specimens from the phylum Cnidaria including Hydra, Obelia sp., and preserved soft and hard corals under a microscope in order to observe and identify their key anatomical structures and reproductive modes. Students are asked to draw and label the parts of different specimens, compare the body forms and life cycles of different cnidarian classes, and answer questions testing their understanding of cnidarian anatomy, physiology, and ecology.

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    Activity No. 9 Cnidaria

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    This laboratory activity document provides instructions and objectives for students to examine various specimens from the phylum Cnidaria including Hydra, Obelia sp., and preserved soft and hard corals under a microscope in order to observe and identify their key anatomical structures and reproductive modes. Students are asked to draw and label the parts of different specimens, compare the body forms and life cycles of different cnidarian classes, and answer questions testing their understanding of cnidarian anatomy, physiology, and ecology.

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    Hydra, Budding Hydra, Spermaries Hydra, Ovary Obelia SP

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    This laboratory activity document provides instructions and objectives for students to examine various specimens from the phylum Cnidaria including Hydra, Obelia sp., and preserved soft and hard corals under a microscope in order to observe and identify their key anatomical structures and reproductive modes. Students are asked to draw and label the parts of different specimens, compare the body forms and life cycles of different cnidarian classes, and answer questions testing their understanding of cnidarian anatomy, physiology, and ecology.

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    Activity No.

    9
    Phylum Cnidaria (Coelenterata)
    Name:____________________________ Date Performed: ________________

    Objectives:
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    Materials:
    Compound microscope
    Prepared slides of: Hydra, w.m.
    Hydra, budding
    Hydra, spermaries
    Hydra, ovary
    Obelia sp.
    Preserved soft and hard coral species

    Procedure:
    I. Body organization of Hydra
    1. Observe the prepared slide of Hydra. Take note of its body form. Take note of
    the following structures:
     Ectoderm
     Hypostome
     Mouth
     body column
     tentacles (count the number of tentacles)
     nematocyst (if visible)
     pedal disc
    2. Draw and label the parts.

    II. Reproduction
    Members of this phylum may reproduce through asexual and sexual means. Both
    can be observed in Hydra.
    1. Asexual mode. Examine a prepared slide of Hydra undergoing budding. Locate
    the bud. Draw and label.
    2. Sexual mode. The gonads of Hydra are temporary structures because they only
    occur during mating season during its life cycle.
    Draw and label spermaries and ovaries.

    III. Obelia sp.


    1. Locate the following structures:
     hydrorhiza
     hydrocaulus
     gastrozooid (hydranth)
     gonozooid (gonangium)
     tentacles
    IV. Preserved specimens
    1. Observe and draw preserved cnidarian specimens. Label the parts. Identify
    them, if possible.
    2. Classify the specimens observed.

    Drawings:
    Guide Questions:
    1. What is a coelenterate? A eumetazoan?
    _____________________________________________________________________________
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    2. Describe the skeleton of cnidarians.
    _____________________________________________________________________________
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    3. What are the body forms of cnidarians? Does Hydra have medusa form?
    _____________________________________________________________________________
    _____________________________________________________________________________
    ____________________________________________________________________________
    4. Which layer(s) of the body wall is/are involved in the formation of the bud in
    Hydra? How can you differentiate ovary from a bud?
    _____________________________________________________________________________
    _____________________________________________________________________________
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    5. Is Hydra hermaphroditic? How can male and female Hydra be differentiated?
    _____________________________________________________________________________
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    6. Identify the growth forms of Obelia and Hydra.
    _____________________________________________________________________________
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    7. What are the 3 layers which consist the cnidarian body? Give their functions.
    _____________________________________________________________________________
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    8. What are the different types of cells that consist the peridermal layer of
    cnidarians?
    _____________________________________________________________________________
    _____________________________________________________________________________
    _____________________________________________________________________________
    9. Compare the 4 cnidarian classes. Fill out the table below:

    Hydrozoa Scyphozoa Cubozoa Anthozoa


    (Cubomedusae)
    dominant form
    medusa with
    velum (present
    or absent)
    Gonads
    cnidocyte
    location
    gastrovascular
    cavity
    Habitat
    Examples
    10. Illustrate the life cycle of cnidarians.

    10. Describe the relationship of some cnidarians with zooxanthellae.


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    11. Enumerate the ecological values of corals.
    _____________________________________________________________________________
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    12. Define the following terms:
    a. nematocyst
    b. cnidocil
    c. cnidocyte
    d. manubrium
    e. craspedote / acraspedote medusa
    f. planula
    g. strobili
    h. hydrotheca
    i. gonotheca
    j. hydrocladium
    k. perisarc
    l. coenosarc
    m. actinula
    n. ephyra
    o. scyphistome
    Conclusion:
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