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Are some tapeworms parasites?
Yes, Tapeworms are parasites. they live in the intestines, by hooking on to the wall with its head using small hooks called bothria. they live of their hosts' nutrients and leave through feces, and can be picked up again through those feces.
What are the examples of acoelom?
flatworms tapeworms
How do tapeworms avoid the host's defenses?
Tapeworms are the adult class of parasites and they are fond of living inside the intestine of their hosts. Tapeworms passively avoid the host defensive system by host digestive system due to the tapeworms coating that keeps on producing by itself and use it as its defense mechanism.
What are the adaptations of tapeworms?
Tapeworms have a body structure that is flat and segmented, allowing them to absorb nutrients from the host's intestine efficiently. They lack a digestive system and absorb nutrients directly through their body surface. They have hooks or suckers on their head, called scolex, which helps them attach to the host's intestine.
Tapeworms can reproduce by fission or budding?
Tapeworms reproduce sexually by producing eggs that are released into the environment with the host's feces. These eggs must be ingested by an intermediate host, such as a flea or a mouse, before they can develop into infective larvae. Once inside the intermediate host, the larvae can develop into adult tapeworms and complete their life cycle.
Do tapeworms Feed on bears?
I do not think so
How do tapeworms excrete?
Adult tapeworms "feed" by absorbing their nutrients through the cuticle from their immediate environment and excrete waste products by the same route
How do tapeworms feed if they have no digestive systems?
Tapeworms are parasitic; they don't have need a digestive system because they absorb the nutrients they need from their host(s).
What is the bobcats symbiotic relationship?
Tapeworms that live in their stomach and feed on the nutrients the bobcat eats
Do acids in your stomach kill tapeworms?
No, stomach acids do not kill tapeworms. Tapeworms are adapted to the environment of the alimentary canal; if they were not, there would be no tapeworms.
Are tapeworms and ringworms the same?
Tapeworms are a kind of flatworm. Most flatworms are not tapeworms.
Are Tapeworms and pseudo-tapeworms in the same Phylum?
Tapeworms are of the class Cestoda of the phylum Platyhelminthes.
Why is a digestive system not needed in a tapeworm?
Tapeworms feed on already digested food as they live in the gut (stomach). Therefore a digestive system isn't necessary.
Are tapeworms in cookie dough?
Yes tapeworms are in cookiedough but you have a very small chance of getting tapeworms from eating it...
Which term refers to the killing of tapeworms?
TAPEWORMS
Are tapeworms useful to humans?
No. tapeworms are pest to humans.
Why don't tapeworms die out with medication?
Because of environmental contamination. Tapeworms shed eggs into the environment and those eggs then turn into the next generation of tapeworms. Treatment of tapeworms with medication only kill the adult tapeworms currently residing in that animal, but the environment and other animals remain a source of eggs and adult tapeworms.
