Parasitic flatowms typically live in the digestive system. Surrounded by pre-digested nutrients, they can easily absorb basic nutrients that they need to maintain homeostasis. In other words, they are borrowing the host's digestive system.
Parasitic flatowms typically live in the digestive system. Surrounded by pre-digested nutrients, they can easily absorb basic nutrients that they need to maintain homeostasis. In other words, they are borrowing the host's digestive system.
Parasitic flatowms typically live in the digestive system. Surrounded by pre-digested nutrients, they can easily absorb basic nutrients that they need to maintain homeostasis. In other words, they are borrowing the host's digestive system.
a digestive system with a single opening
Flatworms, both free-living and parasitic, lack a blood system because they have a flat body structure that allows for efficient diffusion of nutrients and gases directly through their skin. Their bodies are thin enough that all cells are close to the external environment, facilitating the exchange of oxygen and waste without the need for a circulatory system. Additionally, many parasitic flatworms absorb nutrients directly from their host, reducing the need for an internal transport system.
Flatworms have one opening that serves both as a mouth and an anus, which is part of their gastrovascular cavity. This single opening allows for the ingestion of food and the expulsion of waste. Unlike more complex organisms, flatworms have a relatively simple digestive system.
A digestive system with only one opening is called an incomplete digestive tract. Organisms with this type of digestive system ingest food and eject waste through their mouth.
The gut is lined with a single layer of endodermal cells which absorb and digest food.
Planarians are classified underneath the flatworm phyla, and flatworms have two way digestive systems.
Tapeworms are parasitic; they don't have need a digestive system because they absorb the nutrients they need from their host(s).
Jellyfish have a simple digestive system. They have a digestive cavity with cells lining the wall that carry out the digestive function.
Parasitic flatowms typically live in the digestive system. Surrounded by pre-digested nutrients, they can easily absorb basic nutrients that they need to maintain homeostasis. In other words, they are borrowing the host's digestive system.
I am pretty sure they have simple but very complex digestive systems