General Characteristics
Flatworms display this kind of symmetry.
What is Bilateral Symmetry?
Flatworms eject waste out of this orifice.
What is the mouth?
Connecting nerve tissue in a flatworm look like this.
What is rungs of a ladder.
There are this many classes/divisions in phylum Platehelminthes.
What is 3 classes.
Free living flatworms reproduce through this process.
What is regeneration?
A flatworms body resembles this.
What is a ribbon?
A flatworm uses this muscular tube like organ to release digestive enzymes and suck partially digested food particles into the digestive tract.
What is the pharynx.
These run the length of a flatworms body and make up the nervous system.
What are nerve cords.
Turbellarians can see using this group of photosensitive cells.
What is an eye spot?
Flatworms use this substance to lubricate themselves and stick to surfaces.
What is mucus?
Most flatworms are primarily this trophic level (means how they get their food).
What is parasitic
Free living flatworms feed on these kind of organisms.
What are dead and non-living organisms.
nerve balls that make up small swellings at the interior ends of the nerve cords that send signals to and from the rest of the body.
What are ganglion
All tapeworms are members of this class.
What is class Cestoda.
flatworms live in these kind of environments.
What is marine, freshwater and moist land environments?
How many species of flatworms are there?
What is 20,000 species
Flatworms can absorb digested food through this part of the body.
What is the intestine?
Flatworms lack these two types of organ systems.
What is circulatory and respiratory.
This group is parasitic and injects the blood and organs of it's host.
What is Class Trematoda
A flatworm is classified as this, meaning it produces both egg and sperm.
What is a hermaphrodite?
The technical term for one body opening.
What is acoelomate?
Parasitic flatworms use these to attach to a host.
What are hooks and suckers.
These tissues are found beneath the epidermis of some species of flatworms to aid in locomotion.
What are muscles.
Name the three types of flatworms.
What are Trematoda, Turbellaria and Cestoda
The Chinese liver fluke uses these two intermediate hosts during its life cycle.
What is a snail and a fish?