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Platyhelminthes
Cestoda
Taenia |
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Attachment to the intestinal wall of host
Uses hooks and suckers
Anterior end |
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Posterior end of scolex
Beginning of immature proglottids |
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| Small new proglottids formed behind scolex |
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| Longitudinal channels throughout the body Delivers metabolic waste out of body |
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| Functional reproductive organs |
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Eggs are combined with yolk and shelled
Passed to uterus |
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| Shelled, fertilized eggs are stored until proglottid falls off body |
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Entry into female reproductive tract
Joins with genital pore
Sperm travel through it |
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| Canal from testes to exit genital pore |
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External opening of male/female reproductive tracts
Sperm exit and enter through opening |
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Ripe, fertilized eggs
Drops off and eliminated with feces |
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Endoparasite
Nutrients absorbed through epidermis |
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Sexual: Monoecious (self/cross fertilization)
Sperm from one proglottid fertilizes another on same worm |
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