Chapter 25, Problem 10A

Summary Introduction

To determine:

An experiment to determine the food planaria eats.

Introduction:

The planaria are the flatworm that belong to the class turbellaria. They are free living and generally aquatic.

Explanation of Solution

The experimental design to test what planaria eat would include the testing of the planaria culture in an herbivore setting and a setting that include meat diet. The culture in which the planaria survive is the food planaria prefer to eat.

The result of the experiment would indicate that the planaria placed in the meat diet will be healthy, but the one placed on the herbivore diet would not survive. It indicates that planaria prefer to eat meat.