Loose Leaf For Integrated Principles Of Zoology
18th Edition
ISBN: 9781260411140
Author: Cleveland P Hickman Jr. Emeritus, Susan L. Keen, David J Eisenhour Professor PhD, Allan Larson, Helen I'Anson Associate Professor of Biology
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 17, Problem 10RQ
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To describe: The ways by which leeches obtain food.
Introduction: Annelids are characterized as having segmented bodies. Some examples are marine bristle worms, leeches, earthworms. The leeches are different from other annelids in that their segments do not have septa. The different ways in which they obtain nutrition is given as follows:
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