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Flatworm Web Quest Name________________________________________________________________________________________Date_________________Block_____ Flatworm Web Quest http://www.earthlife.net/inverts/platyhelminthes.html 1. What does the name Platyhelminthes mean? 2. What type of symmetry do flatworms have? 3. How do flatworms reproduce? 4. What does it mean to have a blind gut? 5. Flatworms all have a mouth but NO _________________ http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/platyhelminthes/platyhelminthes.html 6. Flatworms are called acoelomates, in reference to their body structure. a. Do flatworms have a stomach? 7. How do flatworms breathe? 8. What does it mean to be paraphyletic? http://www.biology-questions-and-answers.com/flatworms.html 9. What does it mean to be triploblastic? a. Name the 3 layers in flatworms. 10. Describe digestion in flatworms. 11. What are Flame Cells? Click on the name of a Class below to learn more: 1. Class Turbellaria (turbellarians, flatworms) a. How many species of Tubellarians are there? b. Describe how Turbellarians swim? c. What do members of Tubellaria eat? d. What is the role of protonephridia 2. Class Trematoda (parasitic flukes) a. What does it mean when it says all Trematodes are parasites? b. What does it meant to have an external layer that is syncytial? c. What causes schistosomiasis? 3. Class Cestoda a. What is the common name for Class Cestoda? b. What are 4 differences between flatworms in Class Cestoda compared to other worms? c. What is a scolex? Why is it needed? TAPEWORM http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/tapeworm/ds00659/dsection=causes 4. How do you get tapeworms? 5. Where does a tapeworm develop from an egg into a larva? 6. How long can an adult tapeworm get? 7. Where can a tapeworm migrate if it leaves the intestines? http://www.merck.com/mmhe/sec17/ch196/ch196p.html 8. What are some of the symptoms a person might experience if they have a tapeworm? 9. How does a person prevent getting infected? 10. How is a person treated if they are infected? PLANARIA http://www.cals.ncsu.edu/course/zo150/mozley/fall/flatworm.jpg Use the Diagram found on this page to identify structures A through K A. B. C. D. E. F. G. H. I. J. K. .
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