In Hydra, both pseudopodia and flagella occur in _______________.

Nutritive cell

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Solution

The correct option is A Nutritive cell
In Hydra, musculo-nutritive cells are present which is large, columnar, nucleated and vacuolated. The free ends of the cells project into coelenteron which bear pseudopodia and one to five flagella. With the help of pseudopodia and flagella, the cells engulf food material (holozoic ingestion).
So, the correct answer is option A

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