Why can’t roundworms stretch and shorten their body?

The body of the roundworm is protected from the outside by a shell, which consists of many layers. Further under it is a layer of muscles, it is tightly fused with the outer shell. And the worm cannot stretch and shorten its body due to the fact that these muscles are represented exclusively by longitudinal muscles.



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