Question

what is the difference between statocyst and statocyte ?​

Answer 1

Statocyst

Statocysts are structures that aid in orientation and balance during swimming in medusae and are located around the margin of the bell in Craspedacusta and similar medusae (Payne, 1924).

Answer 2

The statocyst is a balance sensory receptor present in some aquatic invertebrates, including molluscs, bivalves, cnidarians,ctenophorans,echinoderms,cephalopods,and crustaceans.A similar structure is also found in Xenoturbella.

Statocytes are cells thought to be involved in gravitropic perception in plants, located in the cap tissue of the roots.[1] They contain statoliths – starch-filled amyloplastic organelles – which sediment at the lowest part of the cells and initiate differential growth patterns, bending the root towards the vertical axis.[2]