What adaptations do all parasitic worms have?
| July 11, 2021 | education
Parasitic worms are found among representatives of flat worms (tapeworms, flukes), roundworms (roundworms, pinworms). In connection with the parasitic lifestyle, they have developed a number of adaptations:
– extraordinary fertility;
– complex life cycles (in flatworms – with a change of host);
– lack of sense organs;
– accumulation of glycogen, because they receive energy as a result of glycolysis, that is, without the use of oxygen;
– flatworms have attachment organs – suckers, hooks.
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