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    Flatworms are thin, flat animals that can be freely living or parasitic. They have no digestive system and reproduce as hermaphrodites. Most flatworms are parasites that live in the bodies of other animals and feed by taking nutrients from the host. They can infest the digestive system or invade internal body cavities and organs, causing discomfort, malnutrition or organ damage.

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    Flatworms are thin, flat animals that can be freely living or parasitic. They have no digestive system and reproduce as hermaphrodites. Most flatworms are parasites that live in the bodies of other animals and feed by taking nutrients from the host. They can infest the digestive system or invade internal body cavities and organs, causing discomfort, malnutrition or organ damage.

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    Flatworms are thin, flat animals that can be freely living or parasitic. They have no digestive system and reproduce as hermaphrodites. Most flatworms are parasites that live in the bodies of other animals and feed by taking nutrients from the host. They can infest the digestive system or invade internal body cavities and organs, causing discomfort, malnutrition or organ damage.

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    Table 2
    Plathyhelminthes
    (Flatworms)
    • Flatworms
    Acoumolate - an animal
    are thin, without any
    flat acoelomate thatbody
    can be
    cavities
    freely living or parasitic.
    • They have a thin flat body that resembles a ribbon
    and have a definite head region an body organs

    CHARACTERISTICS
    • Flatworm have no digestive system
    • Flatworms are hermaphrodites because they
    Hermaphrodites-an organisms with 2 sex organs
    produce eggs and sperm cell.
    • MostParasites-
    flatworms anare
    organisms
    parasitesthat harm
    living other
    in the body of
    aorganisms
    variety ofby living but
    animals on and
    some byare
    taking nutrients
    freely living in
    marine, freshwater, or moist
    from land habitats.
    the host
    • Planaria- lives in stream,lakes,seawater or
    damp soil.they have two dark eyes that can
    detect light no dark .

    examples
    • Tapeworm- lives in human intestine anf
    feeds completely on the digested food and
    its host.
    • Flukes- stay in the liver of their host. They can enter
    through the skin. they cause disease called
    schistosomiasis.
    Flatworms can either infest in the digestive system or

    DISADVANTAG
    invade inside the body cavities; mainly to organs or
    the central nervous system. The former causes

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    digestion discomfort and malnutrition, the latter can
    cause adverse organ damage which can be fatal.
    Nematodes
    (Roundworm)
    • They have long, thin, round bodies, pointed at both
    ends and are covered by a tough cuticle.
    • They have muscles that run the length of their
    body. These muscles cause the worms body to
    CHARACTERISTIC
    move in a trashing manner as one muscles
    contracts and another relaxes.
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    • They found in marine and freshwater habitats even
    in land. Some are parasites and attached to animals
    or plants.
    • Example of this are trichina ,filaria, pinworms, vinegar
    eel and hookworms

    EXAMPLES
    • Hookworm inhabits the intestines of humans and other
    animals. It has hooklike mouthparts with which it
    attaches itself to the wall of the gut, puncturing the
    blood vessels and feeding on the blood.
    • Pinworm-common parasitic roundworm that can infect
    children
    • The Vinegar eel is a harmless that lives in vinegar.
    Roundworms do pose a significant risk to humans.
    Contact with contaminated soil or dog
    DISADVANTA
    feces can result in human ingestion
    and infection. Roundworm eggs may accumulate

    GE
    in significant numbers in the soil where pets
    deposit feces. Onceinfected, the worms can cause
    eye, lung, heart and neurologic signs in people.
    Annelids
    (segmented worms)
    • Have body segments that allow for
    specialization of tissues and for effecient
    movement
    CHARACTERISTICS
    • Their bodies are divided into segments
    with a ringed appearance
    • Annelids have a bilateral symmetry
    • Example of this group are the earthworms and leeches
    • An earthworms are commonly found living in soil, feeding on live

    EXAMPLE
    and dead organic matter. An earthworm's digestive system runs
    through the length of its body. It conducts respiration through its
    skin. It has a double transport system composed of coelomic
    fluid that moves within the fluid-filled coelom and a simple, closed
    blood circulatory system. It has a central and a peripheral nervous

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    system. The central nervous system consists of two ganglia above
    the mouth, one on either side.
    • Leeches are blood sucking annelids
    1.Having established their efficiency in converting organic
    substrates to composts, they are now widely used
    in vermicomposting for waste management, production of soil

    ADVANTAG
    amendments, and other uses.
    2. These worms have been found to be an excellent source of
    animal feed protein, essential amino acids, fats, vitamins, and
    minerals for livestock and fish

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    3. They can be used in removing soil pollutants through
    bioremediation. Heavy metals and other pollutants can be taken
    up by the worms and removed from the soil, a process called
    vermiremediation 

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