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Phylum Platyhelminthes MCQ - NEET Practice Questions with Answers

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  • Phylum Platyhelminthes is considered one of the most asked concept.

  • 13 Questions around this concept.

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Which one of the following kinds of animals are triploblastic?

One example of animals having a single opening to the outside that serves both as mouth as well as anus is:

Planaria possesses high capacity of 

Flame cells help in ________ and are seen in Phylum __________

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Phylum Platyhelminthes
  • Platyhelminthes are also called flat-worms because the cross-section of the body is flat
  • The body is dorsoventrally flattened
  • This phylum consists of planaria, flukes and tapeworms
  • These are first to exhibit triploblastic phenomenon, i.e., the embryo shows the arrangement of three germ layers as ectoderm, mesoderm and endoderm
  • These are acoelomate. The space between ectoderm and endoderm is filled with mesodermal tissue called parenchyma
  • They show bilateral symmetry. They are the first animals to show a degree of cephalization
  • They show organ level of body organization
  • They are mostly parasitic. Some free-living forms are aquatic
  • They have an unsegmented body
  • Tapeworms (Taenia), Liver fluke (Fasciola) are the examples 
  • Tapeworms show pseudo segmentation
     

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