Platyhelminthes include organisms that are

All parasites

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Free living forms

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Both free living and parasites

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Digenetic forms

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Solution

The correct option is D Both free living and parasites
Platyhelminthes are a phylum of simple bilaterian, unsegmented, soft-bodied invertebrate which can be free-living or parasites. Cestoda, Trematoda are parasitic while Turbellaria contains free-living worms.
So, the correct answer is option C.

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