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Cephalization Is Clearly Adaptive for the Free-Living Planarians That Must

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Cephalization is clearly adaptive for the free-living planarians that must locate their food; why would the parasitic flukes and tapeworms retain cephalization?


A) Those with separate sexes would need to locate one another when mating.
B) Parasitic infection is typically organ specific; parasites need to sense their location before attaching to a body structure.
C) Parasite life cycles require dispersal to new hosts, some parasites actively sense potential hosts and move toward them.
D) All of the above are reasonable hypotheses.

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