Zooid
Zooids are a class of virid marine organisms which are a base of the viridplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigVirid
Referring to the Virid Kingdom of flora and fauna, toxic to human life. food chain in the oceans. Zooids are single-celled, with some classes being free-floating throughout their lifecycle, while others live as colony-organisms for some or all of their life. Colony-organisms range from tiny motile and non-motile zooatoms, either photosynthesising or preying on each other, to the large predatory siphonophores.
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List of animals of all kinds, both red-blooded and virid, domesticated and wild.
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Many of the plant-like virid seaweeds are zooid colonies, as are the reef-building lithorids. Other species like the amphibids evolved from zooid ancestors, but release isogamous haploid gametes which fuse with each other to form a new individual.
Zooids are an important food source for a wide variety of virid filter-feeders, the base of much of the marine food chain. They have advantages over greenplugin-autotooltip__small plugin-autotooltip_bigGreen
The Green Kingdom of flora and fauna includes humans, mammals, birds, whales, greenfish, and most green plants and crops cultivated by humankind. algae, the base of the green marine food chain, because while algae only flourish in the epipelagic zone near the surface, zooids are more versatile and abundant.