Who were the tribes the Lewis and Clark encountered in North Dakota? Had the Mandan and Hidatsa ever seen an African-American before? How did tribes fare in the wake of the expedition?
The flatworms, flat worms, Platyhelminthes, Plathelminthes, or platyhelminths (from the Greek ÏÎ»Î±ÏÏ, platy, meaning flat and á¼Î»Î¼Î¹Î½Ï (root: á¼Î»Î¼Î¹Î½Î¸-), helminth-, meaning worm) are a phylum of relatively simple bilaterian, unsegmented, soft-bodied invertebrates.
Platyhelminthes. are commonly called flatworms. There are both. parasitic. (dependent on a host organism for survival) and. free-living. forms of this group. Flatworms, either parasitic or free-living forms, have both sexes on the same individual, a condition referred to as. hermaphroditic. .ost Nematodes are free-living, but some are important parasites of plants and animals. As for the flatworms, nematode development includes all three embryonic tissue layers. Roundworms have a fluid-filled body cavity, that is lined on the outside by tissue derived from mesoderm.