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Cestoda (tapeworm)
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Platyhelminthes
Class: Cestoda
Order: Cyclophyllidea
Family: Taeniidae
Genus: Taenia
Linnaeus, 1758

Tapeworms can grow from 63 centre meters to 15 meters.Tapeworms look like a ribbon that is flat and segmented. tapeworms like to live in our humans digestive system and eat all the food we eat because they can't chew the food.

Tapeworms are simple in design, but ruthless in action. They consist of two organs. The first to the wall of the intestine with suckers and hooks. The second organ is really a series of organs that grow out from the scolex with each having full reproductive capability. Proglottids form a chain of varying length.
Tapeworms have no digestive system so they must eat food already digested by another animal. That is precisely what they do as a parasite inside our intestines. Tapeworms absorb nutrients directly through their skin (cuticle). They also reproduce inside us. There are many species of tapeworms.
Tapeworms can reproduce both sexually and asexually. Mature proglottids (segments that make up the body of a tapeworm) contain both male and female reproductive organs. Sperm from a tapeworm will fertilize the egg--either from the same tapeworm or a different one. The proglottid containing the fertilized egg will break off from the body and burst to release the zygote. The zygote is then released through the feces of the host. Zygotes are then consumed by a new host--their primary host--, grow, burrow, form a cyst, and begin the process again.
Tapeworms we healthy for the human body they can get inside for body through food and eat the food that a person digest and clogs up your vital organs. And strops people from Simple diarrhea, vomiting, stomach cramps and pain, and weakness are the most prevalent symptoms, but can all disguise themselves as a normal stomach flu.

they ways you can prevent coming into contact with a tapeworm can be from you have consuming any raw meat in

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