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how can you distinguish between the top and bottom side of an earthworm

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What is the ventral side of the earthworm?

The ventral side of an earthworm refers to the underside of its body. It is the side that is typically lighter in color and is in contact with the ground as the earthworm moves. You can identify the ventral side by looking for the earthworm's central nerve cord running along its length.


What is different about the ventral side of an earthworm?

The dorsal side of an earthworm is darker than the ventral side because of the dorsal blood vessal that runs along the top of the digestive track and just under the skin. There is a ventral blood vessal, but it doesn't lie against the skin, but instead in between the ventral nerve cord and the digestive track.


Why is the earthworm dissected dorsal side up?

Earthworm is an invertebrate hence it has its nerve chord at the "front" of its body, that is at the ventral surface.To avoid causing damage to the nerve chord,earthworm(invertebrate)is dissected dorsal side up.


Does a earthworm move?

It use their side's mussel to move.


How is blood on the right side of your body different from the blood in the left side?

It isn't different. Blood in each side of the heart is differed by the amount of oxygen it contains, but there is no change between blood on the left, right, front, back, top or bottom of your body as a whole.


Is the dorsal side of an earthworm lighter than the ventral side?

The ventral side is lighter than the dorsal.


Is the dorsal side of an earthworm lighter than the ventral?

The ventral side is lighter than the dorsal.


What C in an adaptation in which the top side of an animal body was different color from that's of it bottom side?

Camouflage


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Ventral relates to the belly or abdomen of the frog.


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