Name the phylum of animal kingdom to which parasitic worms causing diseases such as filarial worm, round worm belong.

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Nematoda/Nemathelminthes/Aschelminthes.
Nematoda is a phylum of aquatic or terrestrial, triploblastic, bilaterally symmetrical but cylindrical worms.
Some species in this phylum are free-living, and some are parasitic on plants and animals.
Example: Ascaris (Roundworm),

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