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Name one acoelomate.


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Acoelomate:

  1. Acoelomates are animals that do not possess a body cavity.
  2. Unlike coelomates, they do not have a fluid-filled cavity between the digestive tract and body wall.
  3. They are known to have a triploblastic body plan which means that their organs and tissues develop from three primary embryonic cell layers.
  4. The three embryonic cell layers through which a triploblastic body outgrows are endoderm, mesoderm, and ectoderm.
  5. Acoelomates lack developed organs.

Example of an acoelomate:

  1. An example of acoelomates is a flatworm.
  2. It belongs to the phylum Platyhelminthes.
  3. These are unsegmented and have bilateral symmetry.

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