How many setae are on each segment of the earthworm?

Q: Where do tapeworms live?

A: Tapeworms are flat, segmented worms that live in the intestines of some animals.  Animals can become…

Q: Tapeworms have no digestive system or mouth. How, then, do they obtain food?

A: Tapeworm is a parasitic flatworom, the grown-up of which lives in the digestive organs. It has a…

Q: What are the four largest classes of mollusks, and where do they live?

A: Step 1 Mollusca is a phylum of soft-bodied and shelled animals that possess an unsegmented coelomate…

Q: How are freshwater oligochaetes generally different from earthworms?

A: All animals are classified according to their presence of characteristics such as characters,…

Q: How is the division of body of the insect?

A: Introduction  Insecta is the largest class of phylum Arthropoda under Kingdom Animalia. Arthropods…

Q: What kind of body plan do grasshoppers have (sac, or tube-within-a-tube)?

A: A body plan is a group of structural and developmental characteristics that can be used to identify…

Q: What evidence places roundworms in a clade with arthropods?

A: ROUNDWORMS It can be seen in an all-natural environment. It can be watched in the naked eye. Almost…

Q: Differentiate the head regions of the free-living flatworm, fluke and tapeworm.

A: Flatworm, also called platyhelminths, are a group of soft-bodied, flattened invertebrates. Fluke is…

Q: How is arthropod reproduction characterized?

A: Arthropoda is the largest phylum of Animalia.  Defined by segmented body and paired jointed…

Q: How do arthropods grow?

A: Arthropods occur on land, in the soil, sea water, fresh water and in the bodies of animals and…

Q: List two or three features of an earthworm cross section that distinguish the dorsal and ventral…

A: The earthworm is an invertebrate that belongs to Phylum Annelida. It has a tubular body plan and…

Q: What is filiform antennae?

A: The adult insect possesses a pair of antennae.  They originated exclusively from the second segment…

Q: What is reproductive system of earthworm?

A: The earthworm is an invertebrate that belongs to the order opisthosoma.  The body plan of an…

Q: Name two ways in which the roundworms areanatomically similar to the arthropods.

A: The kingdom “Animalia” has several phyla (taxonomic rank: phylum). The organisms of this kingdom are…

Q: How is the body of gastropods divided?

A: Molluscs are both terrestrial and aquatic organisms that have an organ-system level of organization.…

Q: How do chaetognaths feed?

A: The word chaetognaths are derived from the Greek word chaite, long flowering hair, + gnathos, jaws.…

Q: How can you compare the structures of the five different kinds of flatworms?

A: Flatworms:- They are soft-bodied invertebrates usually much flattened acoelomate worms. Example:-…

Q: What is Ringworm? What are the different types of ringworm?

A: Pathogens are the living organisms that cause infections in other animals.

Q: what is the name of the specialized mouthpart of the class insecta?

A: Class Insecta comprise of hexapod invertebrates and constitutes the largest group within the phylum…

Q: What are Free-Living Flatworms ?

A: Flatworms are the flattened invertebrates belonging to the Platyhelminthes phylum in the animal…

Q: which phylum of animals includes the parasitic tapeworm?

A: A phylum is a taxonomic group. It is a level higher than classes in taxonomic categories. This…

Q: Are flatworms monoecious or dioecious?

A: Monoecious are those organisms that contain both female as well as male reproductive organs. They…

Q: Define radula in phylum-mollusca?

A: Molluscs are bilaterally symmetrical, and their body is soft and unsegmented with a distinct head,…

Q: What are some examples of arthropods?

A: The organisms belonging to the phylum Arthropoda are characterized by the presence of pairs of…

Q: How does segmentation and having a fluid-filled body cavity confer certain advantages to annelids…

A: Segmentation in annelids is highly adaptive. Annelid body is made of repeating units or segments…

Q: How do body structures and functions of a flatworm compare with those of a cnidarian for a.…

A: Introduction   Platyhelminthes are a group of soft-bodied invertebrates with flattened bodies.…

Q: Are acoelomate flatworms basal bilaterians?

A: While classifying the animals based on their internal structures and external features, the presence…

Q: What are various podomeres that make walking legs of the insects? Explain briefly

A: All the insects have their body segmented into the head, thorax and abdomen. The abdomen region…

Q: What is tape worm and its structure?

A: Worms can be divided into several groups, but are still technically decomposers. The first of these,…

Q: What is clasper in scoliodon?

A: Scoldion or the Dogfish belongs to the shark family.

Q: What is the function of the feet in molluscs? How is the mollusc foot related to the name given to…

A: Phylum Mollusca is the second largest animal phylum which includes over 60,000 species. Molluscs…

Q: how many pairs of walking legs does the class insecta have

A: Within the Phylum Arthropoda there are over 800,000 described species, derived from the Greek…

Q: Give the economic importance of Hemidactylus?

A: Hemidactylus is a genus that includes different types of geckos. It contains about 168 species of…

Q: What is the clitellum of earthtworms and where it is located?

A: An earthworm is a terrestrial invertebrate found in the upper layers of the moist soil that is rich…

Q: How are the three main arthropod classes characterized according to the presence of antennae?

A: Invertebrates are animals that neither possess nor develop a vertebral column (commonly known as…

Q: Give the digrammatic representation showing Digestive system of Hemidactylus?

A: Hemidactylus is a genus of family Gekkonidae. They include different species of common geckos. They…

Q: How does the excretory system of nematodes work?

A: Nematodes are the members of group eumetazoans characterized by bilateral symmetry and three germ…

Q: in eathworms, Is the clitellum located near the anterior or posterior end? What does the clitellum…

A: Annelida are segmented worms that live in saltwater, freshwater, and wet terrestrial environments.…

Q: What is the cleavage pattern of Cnidarians?

A: Cnidarian, is also known as coelenterate is a member of the phylum Cnidaria (Coelenterata), These…

Q: What are benthoic animals?

A: The animals are eukaryotic and multicellular organisms.

Q: . What is Ringworm? What are the different types of ringworm?

A: Ringworm is A highly contagious fungal infection of the skin or scalp. Ringworm is spread by…

Q: Define the life cycle of the pinworm and a roundworm.

A: Introduction: Enterobius vermicularis (pinworm) and Ascaris lumbricoides (roundworm) are the…

Q: how does a light-colored exoskeleton make beetles better adapted to the environment?

A: Introduction Exoskeleton:- It is a rigid or articulated envelope that supports and protects the soft…

Q: What larval type do Anthozoans have and what phylum are they in?

A: Anthozoans are marine invertebrates which comprises of: Sea anemones Stony corals Soft corals

Classification of Marine Organisms

Classification is a way of categorizing organisms that enables an easy process of identification of such organisms. All living things are classified by grouping them under specific categories. The grouping is done based on the close relativeness of the organisms. The classification tool requires knowledge of characteristics, differences, and similarities between different organisms.