What Does the Word Zooidal Mean?

(zō′oid′) One of the distinct individuals of a colonial invertebrate animal, such as a bryozoan, that arise asexually by budding.

What do you understand by the term Zooids?

noun, plural: zooids. (1) A cell capable of spontaneous movement and can live independently or apart from the parent organism. (2) An animal or organism in inferior developmental stages; an organism in intermediate form.

What does a zooid look like?

moss animals

CheilostomataZooids generally shaped like a flat box, walls calcified; orifice frontal, closed by a hinged operculum; specialized zooids commonly present; embryos often developing in ooecia (brood chambers); Upper Jurassic to present; about 70 families, 2,750 species.

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