More From encyclopedia.com
Bryozoa , Bryozoa (Ectoprocta; moss-animals) A phylum of small, aquatic, colonial animals, related to the Brachiopoda, many of which possess a well-developed,… Polyp And Medusa , polyp and medusa, names for the two body forms, one nonmotile and one typically free swimming, found in the aquatic invertebrate phylum Cnidaria (the… Animalia , The kingdom Animalia, or Metazoa, includes all animals. Animals are multicellular, eukaryotic organisms, which are heterotrophic, meaning they obtain… Metazoan , In the tenth edition of his book Systema Naturae (1758), Swedish botanist Carolus Linnaeus developed a biological classification system (now known as… Colony , colony, any nonself-governing territory subject to the jurisdiction of a usually distant country. The term is also applied to a group of nationals wh… Functional Morphology , Functional morphology involves the study of relationships between the structure of an organism and the function of the various parts of an organism.…
You Might Also Like
NEARBY TERMS
zooid