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Chapter 31.2, Problem 4C
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To identify: The two distinguishing characteristics of
Concept introduction: Lophotrochozoa is one of the two major classes of protozoans that include the bilateral animals. They are triploblastic animals, and most of them have a true coelom and a tube-within-a-tube body plan. Lophotrochozoa includes the platyhelminthes (flatworms), rotifers, nemerteans, mollusks, annelids, and lophophorate phyla.
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