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The muscular tube through which the flat worm can suck food into its guts

Pharynx

What is the complexity level of flat worms

Flat worms are the least complex of all worms

What phylum are flat worms included in

Platyhelminthes

What is the Greek word for flat

“Platy”

What kind of symmetry do flat worms have

Bilateral symmetry

Term for describing animals with three fundamental cell layers

Triploblastic

Animals that lack a true body cavity

Acoelomates

Anterior structure on a tape worm; used for attachment

Scolex

Flat worm structure used for excretion and osmoregulation

Protonephridia

Process in which flatworms breathe

Diffusion

Class monogenea has what type of organisms

Liver flukes or blood flukes

An example of an organism from class turbellaria is

Planarian

Another name for the protective syncytial tegument of a flat worm

Neodermis

How long can tapeworms grow to be

Up to 40 ft

The first host that a parasite uses to grow and live. In this host, parasites are typically in their juvenile stage

Intermediate host

This class has Leaf like bodies and is comprised of parasitic flukes

Trematoda

A condition that may cause renal and bladder failure or liver and intestinal disease

Schistosomiasis

Tapeworm class

Cestoda

Class containing digenetic flukes

Trematoda

Flatworm phylum

Platyhelminthes

Type of fresh water, free-living flatworm

Planarian

Cup shaped cells which expel excess liquids from the flat worm body

Flame shells

Flat worms are found where

Marine and fresh water environments


As well as on land in moist areas

Term for organism which is mature and pregnant or full of eggs

Gravid

The ability of some flat worms to grow back missing body parts

Regeneration

A swimming fork tailed larva of a blood fluke

Cercaria

When an organism has two intermediate host in their life cycle

Digenetic

scientific term for eyespots which can detect light intensity

Ocelli