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How is the earthworm's digestive system adapted for extracting small amounts of food and large amounts of ingested soil?
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∙ 7y ago
The way that the earthworm <annelida> adapts to
filtering food out of the soil is that it separates the waste and the food. It then eats the food and releases the waste! (ewwwwww)
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∙ 15y ago
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How is the earthworms digestive system adapted for extracting relatively small amounts of food from large amounts of ingested soil?
The gizzard is a muscular organ used to churn the food and then it moves onto the intestine where absorption of the food occurs.
How is an earthworms digestive system adapted for extracting small amounts of food and large amounts of soil?
you people better figure it out or else......
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My gosh they need the soil to survive it feeds and burrows in it and also protects the soil it is a critical procedure.
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