Tapeworm

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Tapeworm
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• Classification Phylum- platyhelminthes
• Habitat a hosts intestines
• Symmetry bilateral
• Cellular Organization multicellular has three
  layers of tissue.
• Reproduction Hermaphrodite- eggs are fertilized
  by sperm in the same body segment. The segment
  breaks off and passes out of a hosts body with
  wastes. When the wastes are eaten by another
  animal the eggs hatch inside the new host.
• Method of Obtaining Food parasite absorbs food
  that is digested by the host from the hosts
  intestine.
• Special Notes/Adaptations Grows by producing new
  body segments immediately behind its head. Its
  ribbon-like body can grow to 12 m long.