Nereis is a _______ animal.

Carnivorous

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Herbivorous

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Autotrophic

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Solution

The correct option is A Carnivorous
Nereis is a carnivore. Its food consists of small live organisms, or fragments of dead organisms, which it grasps by means of a pair of powerful jaws located at the tip of an eversible muscular pharynx.
The food is ground up and digested as it passes through successive parts of the straight, tubular gut.
The undigested residue is discarded through the anus located at the posterior end.
So the correct answer is option A- 'Carnivorous'.

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