Hydra (/ˈhaɪdrə/ HY-drə) is a genus of small freshwater hydrozoans of the phylum Cnidaria. They are native to the temperate and tropical regions. The...
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Hydra or hydra in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Hydra generally refers to: Lernaean Hydra, a many-headed serpent in Greek mythology Hydra (genus)...
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Abraham Trembley (section Work on Hydra)
naturalist. He is best known for being the first to study freshwater polyps or hydra and for being among the first to develop experimental zoology. His mastery...
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Hydra vulgaris, the fresh-water polyp, is a small freshwater hydroid with length from 10 mm to 30 mm and width about 1 mm. The hydra have four to twelve...
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Hydra viridissima is a species of cnidarian which is commonly found in still or slow-moving freshwater in the Northern temperate zone. Hydra viridissima...
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Animal diversity Invertebrates: sponge – cnidarian – coral – jellyfish – Hydra (genus) – sea anemone flatworms – nematodes arthropods: crustacean – chelicerata...
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Carl Linnaeus#Doctorate. (Distinguish from the small real coelenterate Hydra (genus).) Rana-Piscis: a South American frog which is significantly smaller...
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cats, rabbits, most reptiles, freshwater shrimp tanks as planaria and hydra treatments, as well as seals. Fenbendazole works by binding to tubulin,...
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Biological immortality (section Hydra)
Hydras are a genus of the Cnidaria phylum. All cnidarians can regenerate, allowing them to recover from injury and to reproduce asexually. Hydras are...
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Hydra oligactis, also known as the brown hydra, is a species of hydra found widely dispersed in the northern temperate zone. It is a common organism found...
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Typhon and Echidna and a sibling of monsters like Cerberus and the Lernaean Hydra. The term "chimera" has come to describe any mythical or fictional creature...
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honey bees, the regeneration and immortality properties of the tiny Hydra (genus), and the existence of Quasi-crystals (supramolecular). Other examples...
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pockmarks. The species name hydra comes from the name of the fictional deity Hydra created by H.P. Lovecraft. "Fujuriphyes hydra Cepeda, Pardos, Zeppilli...
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are instead more closely related to Hydra and other hydrozoans, making them hydrocorals. They make up the only genus in the monotypic family Milleporidae...
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battle against the Hydra, his second labor. Seeing that Heracles was being overwhelmed by the multi-headed monster (the Lernaean Hydra), who grew two heads...
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Polypodium hydriforme (redirect from Polypodium (animal genus))
instance, the model organism Hydra and the jellyfish Craspedacusta sowerbii are both exclusively freshwater hydrozoans. Hydra and Craspedacusta sowerbii...
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all three – the cup (Crater, Crater (constellation)), the water snake (Hydra, Hydra (constellation)), and the raven (Corvus, Corvus (constellation)) into...
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Noctua (Latin: owl) was a constellation near the tail of Hydra in the southern celestial hemisphere, but is no longer recognized. It was introduced by...
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Regeneration (biology) (section Hydra)
paddle-shaped growth is obtained at the end of the limb by 18 months. Hydra is a genus of freshwater polyp in the phylum Cnidaria with highly proliferative...
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Féline Felis, the proper name of the star HD 85951 in the constellation of Hydra. Felis (constellation), a now-obsolete constellation created by Jérôme Lalande...
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hydrozoans are the freshwater jelly (Craspedacusta sowerbyi), freshwater polyps (Hydra), Obelia, Portuguese man o' war (Physalia physalis), chondrophores (Porpitidae)...
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but also in adults. Hydra, a genus belonging to Cnidaria, is used as a model organism to study nerve nets. In the body column of Hydra, there is continuous...
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asexually through mechanisms such as budding, as in members of the cnidarian genus Hydra. While somatic mutations are not passed down to an organism's offspring...
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was going to accept pay for the labour; and the killing of the Lernaean Hydra, as Heracles' nephew, Iolaus, had helped him burn the stumps of the multiplying...
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Orange-footed sea cucumber (redirect from Hydra corallifera)
1791 Holothuria pentactes Linnaeus, 1767 Holothuria pentactes O.F. Müller, 1776 Hydra corallifera Gaertner, 1762 Pentacta frondosa (Gunnerus, 1767)...
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about them, often singing them at the end of his conference presentations. Hydra – another kind of cnidarian that is claimed to be immortal List of longest-living...
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the existence of potentially immortal organisms such as members of the genus Hydra have motivated research into delaying senescence and thus age-related...
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of nature in his possession: the taxidermied remains of a seven-headed hydra. Linnaeus quickly discovered the specimen was a fake, cobbled together from...
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Chetone hydra is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Arthur Gardiner Butler in 1871. It is found in Ecuador and Peru. Chetone at Markku...
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chthonic symbol, roughly translated as earthbound. The nine-headed Lernaean Hydra that Hercules defeated and the three Gorgon sisters are children of Gaia...
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