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not separated animals. Is a colony but the members are not independent. Many cnidarians are able to bud and the buds can vary the phenotype later.
by pvaldes 3y ago
not separated animals. Is a colony but the members are not independent. Many cnidarians are able to bud and the buds can vary the phenotype later.
- culi 3y agoI suppose a better example of what I meant to talk about are lichen. Which are single species but technically a partnership between types of fungi and an algae. In siphonophores, each specimen is actually a colony of minute asexually reproducing organisms called zooids that have to work together for survival. They are not "independent" in the sense that they would die without each other, but given the fact that they can reproduce independently, there's definitely some sort of independence there. It's like if all your organs were able to independently reproduce themselves.
- pvaldes 3y agoWhat I mean is that in Physalia each individual in the floating city is still a clone of the other members of the colony. All members of the floating city came from an unique larva. This mean also that each Physalia is either male or female but not both.