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Why do invertebrates have to molt but vertebrates do not?

Anonymous

∙ 11y ago

Updated: 9/24/2023

vertebrates dont molt because as they grow their bones grow unlike the bones of invertebrates the exoskeletons of invertebrates cant grow so the animal sheds of the old exoskeletons and makes a new one and that is called molding

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