Animals showing highly repetitive segmented body-plan belong to

Cnidaria

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Porifera

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Annelida

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Cephalochordata

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Solution

The correct option is C Annelida
Annelids are the animals showing highly segmented body-plan. The annelids are also known as the ringed worms or segmented worms e.g., earthworm. Annelids are triploblastic, bilaterally symmetrical. They are metamerically segmented and coelomate animals. Its segments consist the same sets of internal organs and external chaetae.

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