They cannot eat continuously (there mouth and anus are present in the same opening)
Organisms that have only one opening in their digestive tract through which food enters and waste exits are known as having an incomplete digestive system. Some organisms with incomplete digestive systems are jellyfish, sea anemones, flatworms, and corals.
The simplest digestive compartments are the gastrovascular cavities and the alimentary canals. Gastrovascular cavities, found in organisms like jellyfish and flatworms, serve both digestion and distribution of nutrients, having a single opening for both ingestion and egestion. Alimentary canals, seen in more complex organisms, consist of a one-way digestive tract with separate openings for ingestion and egestion, allowing for more efficient digestion and absorption of nutrients.
Having a single opening for both ingestion and elimination can increase the risk of contamination and infection from waste material. It can also limit the efficiency of digestion and nutrient absorption, as food may not be fully broken down before being expelled. Additionally, this type of digestive system may restrict the size and complexity of organisms that can be sustained due to the limitations in processing food.
Flatowrms have muscle cells, they are a triploblastic phylum. They have endo, meso and ectoderm layersSponges are Parazoa and lack any true tissue at allCnidaria are diploblastic, having only endoderm and ectoderm
central nervous system.
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Some animals have only one opening (e.g. starfish), but having two openings (input and output) permits a long "disassembly line" type of processing of food that more efficiently extracts nutrients.
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Leeches have a complete digestive tract. Leeches are members of Phylum Annelida. This phylum has the general characteristic of having a complete digestive tract, i.e. food goes in through the mouth, pass through digestive tract of some sort like stomach and/or intestine, waste gets discarded through some sort of rectal opening, i.e. anus. In comparison, an incomplete digestive tract generally means food goes in and waste come out of the same opening, i.e. mouth=anus. Lower level invertebrates have incomplete digestive tract like Phylum Cnidaria and Phylum Platyhelminthes members.
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