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Soft, unsegmented, flattened worms with internal organ systems and tissues Simplest animal to have three embryonic layers, bilateral symmetry, and cephalization. Platyhelminthes: Fat Worms. By Mikinley, Maddie, Merritt. Bilateral. Symmetry. Bilateral.
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Soft, unsegmented, flattened worms with internal organ systems and tissues • Simplest animal to have three embryonic layers, bilateral symmetry, and cephalization Platyhelminthes: Fat Worms By Mikinley, Maddie, Merritt
Bilateral Symmetry Bilateral
Debris and tissues of dead or almost dead animals • Feed by extracting bodily juices from prey using scolex mouth that can latch on to food Feeding Detritivore: animal which feeds off of dead organic materials
Diffusion Circulation
Food goes through the mouth and is digested using its pharynx in a Gastrovascular Cavity Excretion Flame Cells
Complex structures • External environment • Does Not have a complex nervous system • CNS runs between two nerve cords on both of its sides Response
Those that live on land use muscle cells to move body • Those that live in water use cilia to swim Movement Muscle Cells and Cilia
Reproduce both sexually and asaexually • Both the male and female reproductive organs can be found in a single flatworm (Hermaphrodite) • These organs are stored in the proglottid Reproduction
Diffusion • No lungs or circulatory system • Cells close to the surface of the skin Respiration
Trematoda • Cestoda • Planarians • Monogenea Name of classes and example 4 major classes