Question
What are the peculiar features that you find in parasitic platyhelminthes?
Solution
Parasitic platyhelminthes have the following peculiar features:
1. They have dorsiventrally flattened body and bear hooks and suckers to attach inside the body of the host. They can absorb nutrition from the host directly through the body surface.
2. Their body is covered with thick covering to protect them from the action of digestive juices of the host.
