Unsegmented worms that have psedocoelems and digestive systems with two openings.
Environment Soil Salt Flats Water- from polar to tropics Food Source Predators that use body parts to catch, grasp, and EAT. Soil dwellers/Aquatic-eat decaying matter.
Circulation- Relies on diffusion. Respiration- No internal transport system Excretion- Diffusion to carry nutrients and waste through body.
Response Simple nervous systems- ganglia Nerves that run length of body transmit sensory info and movement. Possess sense organs that can detect chemicals given off by prey or hosts.
muscles extend throughout body together with fluid in pseudocoelem make up hydrostatic skeleton reproduce sexually and have individual sexes Pseudocoelom – internal body cavity lacking mesodermal lining
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