Flatworms and Roundworms questions

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Please answer the following questions in complete sentences and use the book for your resource. Read pages 57-63. https://intervisualtechnology.us/uploads/PDFs/Zool…

  1. Describe specialized feeding structures of parasitic platyhelminths.
  2. Some parasitic flatworms have a very complicated life cycle with more than one host. Infer why this might be adaptive.
  3. How do free-living nematodes contribute to the carbon cycle?
  4. Apply what you know about pinworms to develop one or more recommendations for preventing pinworm infections in humans.
  5. Platyhelminths and nematodes are both worms. Justify classifying them in different invertebrate phyla.