Flatworms General Information
The symmetry of flatworms
What is Bilateral Symmetry?
The term for three germ layers
What is triploblastic?
What is where Ascaris lives?
The term meaning that the fluke lives inside of the host
What is endoparasite?
The places that tapeworms can live
What is all vertebrates?
The ability to grow back lost or missing parts
What is regeneration?
The term do we use to describe a roundworm's digestive system
What is tube within a tube?
The number of eggs that Ascaris can produce per day
What is 200,000?
The number of species of flukes.
The way that tapeworms enter the host
What is by consuming raw or undercooked meat?
Specialized cells with cilia that rid the body of excess water.
What are Flame Cells?
One type of asexual reproduction in roundworms
What is binary fission?
Happens if Ascaris becomes too numerous in the host
What is they can completely block the intestine of the host?
An animal from which a larval parasite derives its nourishment
What is intermediate host?
What is posterior end?
Extends outside of the body and is used for feeding
What is the pharynx?
The term that means that roundworms have a "false" coelom
What are pseudocoelomates?
What hookworms feed on in their host
An animal from which an adult parasite derives its nourishment
What is the primary host?
Losing a system or lost part of a body system?
What is degeneration?
The protective covering of parasitic worms
What is the cuticle?
The place that larval hookworms live
How eggs escape their host
What is through feces?
Contains the hooks and suckers that attach to the host
What is the scolex?