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Flatworms
The phylum Platyhelminthes (aka flatworms) are rather primitive invertebrates that can be either parasitic or non-parasitic depending upon the species. They have no body cavity, no circulatory organs and no respiratory organs. Questions about flatworms can be asked and answered here.
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What type of protection does a flatworm use?
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—The color of the flatworm protects it from predators.
How is the nervous system of a flatworm more complex than the sensory cells and nerve net of a Cnidaria?
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Are flatworms born from an egg?
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no, they care born from seeds in certain flowers like the hibiscus, water lily and dahlia
What are the major classes of flatworms?
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Flatworms are divided into two groups, parasitic and nonparasitic. The parasitic types, which live off of other organisms, consist of Cestoda, Trematoda, and Monogenea flatworms.
What is the symmetry of the marine flatworm?
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A marine flatworm has bilateral symmetry.
How do flatworms communicate?
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Research has shown that the flatworm communicates via the gap junctional channels. This also applies to the other types of worms as well.
What is the waste product of flatworms?
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the flat worm gets rid of waste through the same openinig takes in food
How do cnidarians and flatworms get food?
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They are filter feeders that draw water into their pores, filter out tiny sea invertebrates that are absorbed and digested, and expel the remaining water in a continuous basis.
What is the only free-living flatworms?
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oh no. they are most definitely parasitic worms. they can get inside a persons body and live off their food supply in the person's intestines. They can grow quite long too, about 27 or more feet.
What types of symbiosis of a flatworm and horseshoe crab?
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Commensalism-The flatworm benefits from eating bits of food from what the crab ate. The Horseshoe Crab is unchanged as far as scientists know. Commensalism is a form of symbiosis that benefits one organism without affecting the other organism.
Why do flatworms have no need for a circulatory or respiratory system?
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Flat worms do not have blood. There fore, they do not require a respiratory system to infuse fresh oxygen into the blood. This lack of a respiratory system, means they do not have lungs.
Can people have flatworms for pets?
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It would be difficult to have a parasitic flatworm as a pet as you would also have to have a host for it to survive.
It might be possible to have a free living flatworm as a pet. Feeding them would be difficult. Polyclads have the ability to self-destruct under stress, so, if disturbed and taken from their natural habitat, they would probably die.
Do simple animals like hdra flatworms use gastrovascular cavity to digest?
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Yes that is true
Is a hookworm a roundworm or a flatworm?
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Tape worms are not round worms. A tape worm is a flat worm.
Both are intestinal parasites and feed off the nutrients that are provided by the host. A tapeworm is segmented and the segments break off and look like little grains of rice. A round worm is long and round. In large quantities they resemble spaghetti.
What do flatworms do or live?
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I Think It Lives In The Water
Where It Is Deep And Dark.
What are the advantages of flatworms?
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you can eat it and play with it whenever you like. . .
