University:
Coventry University
Course:
115 BMS | Introduction to Biomedical Analysis
Academic year:

2023
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164

Pages:

3
Author:

Badusha S

Fasciola-phylum Platyhelminthes characters 1. Body is dorsoventrally Plattened. 2. Bilateral symmetry. 3. Acelomate ie.., there is no body cavity or coelom. 4. Priploblastic (consists of thece germ layers ectoderm, mesoderm and endoderm). Fasciola-parasitic adaptations. 1. The body is covered with a thick and exsistant cutide. 2. Anaerobic respiration. 3. Digestive enzymes one absent. 4. Two suckers -oral sucher and ventral sucker are Present Ventral sucker helps to attach with the tissue of the host. 5. Hermaphrodites with high reproductive capacity. Fasciala - Economic importance it damages the liver of host and causes liver rot disease. Identifying characters. 1. It is an endoparasite in the bile Passage Vertebrates. It causes a disease known as liver sot. 2. The body is flat, leaf-like, dorsoventrally-plattered aceolomate and bilaterally symmetrical. 3. A mouth is present at the anterior end. it is surrounded by an oral sucker. A little below the mouth a posterior sucker or acetabulum is present. 4. on the ventral side of the body, a gonopore is Present în between the two suckers. 5. The posterior end of the body bears an excretory Pore.