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How does leeches regenerate?

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As hermaphrodites, leeches have both male and female sex organs. Like the earthworms they also have a clitellum, a region of thickened skin which is only obvious during the reproductive period. Mating involves the intertwining of bodies where each deposits sperm in the others' clitellar area. Rhyncobdellids have no penis but produce sharp packages of sperm which are forced through the body wall.

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Leeches are both male and female making them hermaphrodites. Although they can't reproduce on there own. Once a leech finds a partner they "trade" sperm by rubbing up against each other. After fertilization the leech lays its eggs and after 21 days hopefully all 400 baby leeches hatch and the parent leech finds them a food source (blood) and with their final job for filled they dies.

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they are asexual so they regenerate that way by produceing other body parts. GET R DID yeyeyeyeyeye

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