Selasa, 18 Januari 2011

Hydra

Most of my students believed that hydra is a plant. Well , find out here from Wikipedia Encylopedia...

Hydra is a genus of simple fresh-water animal possessing radial symmetry. Hydras are predatory animals belonging to the phylum Cnidaria and the class Hydrozoa.[1][2] They can be found in most unpolluted fresh-water ponds, lakes, and streams in the temperate and tropical regions and can be found by gently sweeping a collecting net through weedy areas. They are usually a few millimetres long and are best studied with a microscope. Biologists are especially interested in hydras due to their regenerative ability; and that they appear not to age or die of old age. However, there is not scientific unanimity yet on whether Hydra undergo senescence...

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