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Yes they do digest food.
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How flatworms get energy?
Different types of flatworms eat different types of food such as bacteria or protozoans. They send digestive juices out of the opening in their digestive tract to partially digest the food, then they suck all of this up back into their gastrovascular cavity where it is fully digested and provides energy to the flatworm.
Can flatworms make their own food?
flatworms cannot make their own food.
How do flatwroms digest food?
Flatworms don't digest their food as they don't have digestive tracts. Evolutionarily, they don't need to digest food as they absorb it already digested from their hosts. They evolved to be parasites and are physiologically dependant on their hosts, and what they gain from this is that they no longer have to expend energy to digesting their own food, but can instead use that energy to produce thousands of eggs so as to infect others.
Why don't parasitic flatworms and roundworms have structures for locomotion?
That's just the way God made them. Flatworms and roundworms have certain body cavities that basically help them digest food,respire,reproduce,and even move from one place to another.
Do simple animals like hdra flatworms use gastrovascular cavity to digest?
Yes that is true
What do flatworms have that sponges and cnidarians dont?
Flatowrms have muscle cells, they are a triploblastic phylum. They have endo, meso and ectoderm layersSponges are Parazoa and lack any true tissue at allCnidaria are diploblastic, having only endoderm and ectoderm
Can a flatworm digest food?
Yes, they can digest food.
Do reptiles digest their food?
yes reptiles do digest food
Can a mushroom digest its food?
no it cant digest its own food
Do snails digest their food?
Yes, snails do digest their food.
Does a planarian have a one way digestive system?
The gut is lined with a single layer of endodermal cells which absorb and digest food.
Does a flatworm make it's own food?
no, flatworms depend on outside food sources
