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The digestive organ in which an earthworm stores food is?
Temporary storage occurs in the crop of an earthworm
Is an earthworm a filter feeder?
An earthworm is not a filter feeder. Marine animals that feed by passing nutrient-rich water through their gills are called filter feeders because their gills filter nutrients from the water and pass them into their intestines. An earthworm does not have gills and does not normally live in water. The earthworm's digestive system consists of a pharynx, esophagus, crop (food receptacle), gizzard (used for grinding swallowed earth), and a long, straight intestine.
How is a earthworm suited to its environment?
They are hermaphrodites. A single earthworm has both male & female gametes to produce a new zygote. They have pore on the skin to breath in the soil. They can also absorb moisture from the soil. They feed on decomposed organism to survive
What does the crop do in the digestive process of the earthworm?
The crop serves as a storage stomach in the earthworm.
In which segments of earthworm are typhlosole present?
In earthworm, typhlosole is a dorsal flap of the intestine that runs along most of its length. Its function is to increase intestine surface area for more efficient absorption of digested nutrients. In different earthworm families, the typhlosole appears to have multiple origins
What is the function of the intestin in an earthworm?
To process food and extract nutrients.
What are the interactions between the bird and earthworm?
Birds prey on earthworms as a food source, using their beaks to locate and extract them from the ground. This interaction plays a crucial role in the ecosystem as it helps regulate earthworm populations and provides birds with essential nutrients.
What group of nutrients help to extract the energy from food during metabolism?
Proteins extract the energy from food via Enzymes.
What is the function dose the crop carry out in an earthworm?
the crop gives the worm nutrients (food)
How is food digested in an earthworm?
It has an esophagus for the food to go down, a crop to store the food in, a gizzard that grinds the food down, intestines for the food to pass through and take out nutrients.
How does the earthworm get nutrients?
The earthworm gets nutrients the same way most other animals get nutrients, by eating and digesting them. The earthworm digests dirt and bacteria and enzymes in the dirt in order to utilize the vitamins and minerals it needs to survive.
What is the group of organs that extract nutrients from food for your body called?
The digestive system.
What is the function of the typhlosole on a earthworm?
The typhlosole is a fold in the intestinal wall of an earthworm that increases the surface area for absorption of nutrients. It helps in the digestion and absorption of food in earthworms by providing more surface area for enzymes to break down food particles and for nutrients to be absorbed.
What are villi and why are they important?
Small hairlike growths on the intestines that extract nutrients from food passing along the intestines.
What is a processing gut?
they contain regions of the digestive tract specializedfor particular functions. An earthworm gut has a region for storing soil, a region for grinding soil (gizzard), and another region for absorbing nutrients.
What is digestgion?
The chemical break down of food in your body to extract nutrients key to survival. Saliva, stomach and intestines do most of the digesting
How the earthworm get and eat their food?
at the soils
