Monday, March 30, 2009

Nematodes!!!!!!!! Fo sho'

Nematodes are the most diverse phylum pseudocoelomates, and one of the most diverse of animals. There are over 80,000 different types of Nematodes and around 15,000 look to be parasitic. A Nematode is a type of round worm. Round worms are bilaterally symetric, triploblastic prostomes and a complete digestive system. They dont have a circulatory or resperatory system. They breathe through a function called diffusion.

which have four juvenile stages. An alternate form of the fourth stage juvenile, often called the "preadult" stage, is a unique resistant or survival stage in which the stylet is reduced and nonfunctional or absent and therefore does not feed. the preadults molt rapidly and begin feeding when placed near a plant root, perhaps due to some chemical compound released from the root. They are free-living species.

Nematodes help and destroy plants. There is one type that attacks cutworms from plants and then another type that attacks the plants. Nematodes are pretty cool. There are a lot of different species so they will probably find some more soon.


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