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Give scientific reason.
Our body irritates if it comes in contact with a jellyfish.
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Solution
- The mouth of jellyfish is surrounded by tentacles.
- The tentacles possess cnidoblasts which are used for capturing prey or for defense.
- When our body comes in contact with the tentacles of jellyfish, these cnidoblasts penetrate our skin as a defensive action.
- Cnidoblast injects the toxin in our body and thus, our body irritates if it comes in contact with jellyfish.
Concept: Non Chordates (Invertebrata) - Phylum: Cnidaria/Coelenterata
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