Tapeworms

Yes they live in cold water but they are inactive due to the low temperatures

Tapeworms are hardly "useful". Indeed a tapeworm infestation is a serious medical condition leading to malnutrition as the worm diverts one's food into its own tissues.

The worm hangs onto the intestinal wall by a head called a scolex, and buds off segments containing eggs, that are released in the stool.

These segments can be seen and look something like cucumber seeds. Fortunately by means of a suitable vermicide, a tapeworm infestation is easily cured.

But of course the best approach is not to become infected in the first place. The most common source is "measly beef" and poorly cooked pork, that is beef or pork that contains tapeworm cysts. Fortunately in the western world, meat production is closely supervised, and measily meat is a rarity.

Humans can also accidentally contract tapeworms from wild rats and mice, fish, and a common one is the dog tapeworm. This can be transferred by an infected dog licking one's face.

The worst is when a human acts as a secondary host to the hydatids tapeworm. This produces huge cysts in the body and even the brain, and have to be removed by major surgery.

The best way to prevent this is to have dogs regularly treated for worms, and never feed dogs sheep offal, which is the tissue most commonly favoured by the worm cysts.

In advanced agricultural countries it is a criminal offense to do so, and working dogs must be regularly treated by law, because a cyst in a human is absolutely devastating.

Tapeworms generally live in the intestine.

It is best to take them to a vet. They can treat them easily and and it will be best for the pups.

Tapeworms are a kind of flatworm. Most flatworms are not tapeworms.

Adaptations for a parasite would mean not spending energy on functions such as digesting food for instance so that they can divert their energy to growing and reproducing. They don't even have a proper digestive system, instead they absorb the already digested food through their skin.

Other than that, since they live in an environment that will be immunologically hostile to them (inside a host's intestines), they have their own defences.

Therefore a tapeworm is a parasite.

Tapeworms were discovered in 1758 by Carl Linnaeus, a Swedish physician and botanist.

Tapeworms are found in the intestines of mammals. inside a human

Tape worms are animals.Animals do not have a cell wall.

No, they do not, but tapeworms ARE dangerous, but not REALLY serious. If they were, we all would feel sick in the stomach. Though we all do get occasional bellyaches, that doesn't mean you have tapeworms.

No, white.

ummmm....check your dog first, okay? then we'll get into this.

Usually once you use medication to kill tapeworms, it should come out the next time you go to the bathroom.

parasitic

The tape worms hosts are human and animals. Mostly common in humans, cats, and dogs, and also mostly common in ifants and young children.

The genus of tapeworm is Taenia. It is commonly abbreviated simply as T. when referring to one of the various species. There are over a thousand different species of tapeworm. Most vertebrates (animals with a spinal column) can be infected by at least one species, maybe more.

Adult tapeworms can measure up to 50 feet long and can survive as long as 20 years in a host. Some tapeworms attach themselves to the walls of the intestine, where they cause irritation or mild inflammation, while others may pass through to your stool and exit your body.

People can get tapeworms from eating infected meat. In the US, all meat is inspected before it is made available for public consumption. Meat should be thoroughly cooked before serving.

no they aren't. T.hey are not protostomes either deuterostomes

Platyhelminthes.

I think it's so they can absorb more nutrients at once.

The head of a tapeworm is called a scolex. The tapeworm attaches itself to the intestine of the host with hooks and suckers that are on the scolex.

The worms are designed to offer as large an absorbing surface as possible to food passing down the intestine.

So they are flat, white and long - up to 40 feet, (12 metres) like a piece of tape.

Each has a tiny head, with suckers - and sometimes with hooklets - to cling to the bowel wall.

Segments are produced from the head and gradually get bigger, developing eggs the further they get from the head.

Mature segments are crammed full of eggs and are constantly splitting off to be discharged in the stools.

by Krishna prasad

Intestinal tapeworms do not usually cause much problems. But when they infiltrate your body like dog tape worm, they may make you disabled and hundreds thousands are people suffer from it. At times they kill you.