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GK QUESTION#3897

Which group of Kingdom Animalia has unsegmented, bilaterally symmetrical, soft bodies, with a triploblastic construction (comprising three layers of cells) and a lacking coelom, skeleton and anus?

  1. ACnidaria
  2. BCtenophora
  3. CPlatyhelminthesCorrect answer
  4. DPorifera
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C. Platyhelminthes

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Platyhelminthes is the group described in this introductory body-plan comparison. Flatworms are triploblastic acoelomates with bilateral organization and no true metameric segmentation. The digestive tract, when present, is typically incomplete; tapeworms lack a digestive tract.

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