Question

What are the peculiar features that you find in parasitic platyhelminthes?

Answer 1

Taenia (Tapeworm) and Fasciola (liver fluke) are examples of parasitic platyhelminths. Peculiar features in parasitic platyhelminthes are as follows:

• They have dorsoventrally flattened body and bear hooks and suckers to get attached inside the body of the host.
• Their body is covered with thick tegument, which protects them from the action of digestive juices of the host.
• The tegument also helps in absorbing nutrients from the host’s body.