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How do flatwroms digest food?

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Mayajaegp5950

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11y ago
Updated: 8/21/2019

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.

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