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Sessile

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adjective

(1) Of, pertaining to, or relating to the state of sessility or the inability to move actively or spontaneously.

(2) Of, or pertaining to being permanently attached to the substrate or to the base, hence, not freely moving.

(3) (botany) Of, or pertaining to the lack of petiole or leafstalk in some plants.


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Word origin: Neo-Latin sessilis, sitting

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Yeast Mating Type Switching

... PART B: (b) A similar kind of cell asymmetry seems to occur during cell division in the bacterium, Caulobacter crescentus, in which a sessile (stalked) mother cell and a motile (flagellated) daughter cell are generated at the end of the cell cycle: diagram: http://i214.photobucket.com/albums/cc35/nirav464/partB.png ...

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Re: Why Cnidaria swim?

There are many different forms of cnidaria, ranging from sessile corals to mobile jellyfish. The main reason for their mobile forms (including the medusa stage of anthozoans) is dispersal. Sometimes they swim towards the light for other reasons. There ...

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by skeptic
Wed Mar 24, 2010 8:41 pm
 
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by yahman
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by Darwin420
Thu Mar 06, 2008 7:28 pm
 
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Medusa and polyp - question

I think my hint would be sessile vs mobile - just follow up your initial instincts.

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by Darby
Sun Mar 18, 2007 11:23 pm
 
Forum: Zoology Discussion
Topic: Medusa and polyp - question
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