Biology (MindTap Course List)
Biology (MindTap Course List)
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ISBN: 9781337392938
Author: Eldra Solomon, Charles Martin, Diana W. Martin, Linda R. Berg
Publisher: Cengage Learning
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Chapter 31.2, Problem 8LO
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To describe: The distinguishing characteristics of the lophophorates and of the rotifers.

Concept introduction: Lophotrochozoa is one of the two major classes of protozoans that include the bilateral animals. They are triploblastic animals, and most of them have a true coelom and a tube-within-a-tube body plan. Lophotrochozoa includes the platyhelminthes (flatworms), rotifers, nemerteans, mollusks, annelids, and lophophorate phyla.

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