Worms

Phylum Platyhelminthes
Phylum Nematoda
Phylum Annelida

Phylum Platyhelminthes
• _________________________
• Three embryonic germ layers (endoderm, mesoderm, ectoderm). Germ
layers _____________________________________________
• Bilateral symmetry
• Cephalization (head)

Coelom (Greek for cavity or hollow) = ___________________________

Acoelomates = _______________________

Form and Function in Flatworms

Feeding:
• Free-living = carnivores or scavengers
Have digestive cavity, mouth, pharynx
• Parasites: = Feed on blood, tissue fluids, or
___________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________
• Most _________________________________________________________ because they
absorb digested material directly

Response:
• Ganglia = ___________________________________________________ (like a brain)
• Eyespot = group of cells that can detect light
• Movement:
• Flatworms move in 2 ways
1)__________ = helps them glide through water and on stream floors
2) _______________ = twist and turn
• Reproduction:
• ___________________________ = Hermaphrodites = has both male and female
reproductive organs
___________________________ by fission = organism spits in two

Phylum Nematoda
• Unsegmented worms
_____________________ ("false coelom")
- body cavity contains organs
• Digestive tract with 2 openings: _________________________

Form and Function in Roundworms

• Feeding
_________________________
Parasites - humans and animals
• Reproduction: ______________________________,
________________________________________________________
 • Nematodes are responsible for many
_______________________________________________: Ascaris (a quarter of world’s
population is infected with Ascaris), Filarial worms (Elephantitis), and
Hookworm, for example.

Phylum Annelida
• segmented worms,
• _______________________________________
• Includes: ___________________________________________
• Annelida means "little rings"

Form and Function in Annelids

• body divided into segments separated by _____________
Septum = ________________________________
- some have bristles called setae on each segment
• have closed circulatory system
• have
__________________________________________________________________________
• sexual reproduction, some are hermaphrodites