Question

What do you mean by diploblastic animals?

Answer 1

Diploblastic and Triploblastic Animals

1. All animals develop their tissues, organs and organ system from the cells that form the embryonic layers. Based on the number of embryonic layers, animals are classified into two- diploblastic and triploblastic animals.
2. Triploblastic refers to having three embryonic germinal layers, viz. Ectoderm, endoderm and mesoderm.
3. The diploblastic organization refers to having only two embryonic layers ectoderm and endoderm, mesoderm is absent.

Final Answer

1. Diploblastic animals are the animals which have two germinal layers in the embryo, outer ectoderm and inner endoderm. E.g. Porifera, Coelenterata.