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    Earthworm Crayfish Essay

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    Earthworms live in soil and tunnel through it by eating dirt. They have a moist skin that helps them tunnel and breathe without lungs. Their body is segmented with muscles along its length. Their digestive system includes an intestinal tube that processes nutrients from food in a crop, gizzard, and enzymes. They have a closed circulatory system with blood vessels and a nervous system made of ganglia that respond to stimuli. They are hermaphrodites and excrete processed dirt that acts as fertilizer. Crayfish live in unfrozen freshwater and breathe through gills. Their body has two main parts - a cephalothorax and abdomen. They molt their exoskeleton to grow.

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    Earthworm Crayfish Essay

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    Earthworms live in soil and tunnel through it by eating dirt. They have a moist skin that helps them tunnel and breathe without lungs. Their body is segmented with muscles along its length. Their digestive system includes an intestinal tube that processes nutrients from food in a crop, gizzard, and enzymes. They have a closed circulatory system with blood vessels and a nervous system made of ganglia that respond to stimuli. They are hermaphrodites and excrete processed dirt that acts as fertilizer. Crayfish live in unfrozen freshwater and breathe through gills. Their body has two main parts - a cephalothorax and abdomen. They molt their exoskeleton to grow.

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    Earthworms live in soil and tunnel through it by eating dirt. They have a moist skin that helps them tunnel and breathe without lungs. Their body is segmented with muscles along its length. Their digestive system includes an intestinal tube that processes nutrients from food in a crop, gizzard, and enzymes. They have a closed circulatory system with blood vessels and a nervous system made of ganglia that respond to stimuli. They are hermaphrodites and excrete processed dirt that acts as fertilizer. Crayfish live in unfrozen freshwater and breathe through gills. Their body has two main parts - a cephalothorax and abdomen. They molt their exoskeleton to grow.

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    Earthworm Crayfish Essay

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    Earthworms live in soil and tunnel through it by eating dirt. They have a moist skin that helps them tunnel and breathe without lungs. Their body is segmented with muscles along its length. Their digestive system includes an intestinal tube that processes nutrients from food in a crop, gizzard, and enzymes. They have a closed circulatory system with blood vessels and a nervous system made of ganglia that respond to stimuli. They are hermaphrodites and excrete processed dirt that acts as fertilizer. Crayfish live in unfrozen freshwater and breathe through gills. Their body has two main parts - a cephalothorax and abdomen. They molt their exoskeleton to grow.

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    Earthworm and Crayfish Essay

    Earthworms are from the annelid phylum and are longs, and moist. They live in and
    tunnel through dirt by eating away at it. Their moist skin helps them tunnel through the dirt and
    undergo the process of respiration, because they do not have lungs. Their body consists of 100
    segments and has muscle up and down the body. Their digestive system consists of a long
    intestinal tube that allows the nutrients from their food to be processed. Their pharynx is a very
    muscular organ that pushes dirt through their esophagus into the crop and gizzard. The crop has
    digestive enzymes that help digest the food and the gizzard crushes it. An earthworm has a
    closed circulatory system that consists of 5 aortic arches that pump blood through blood
    vessels throughout the body. The nervous system is made up of a ganglion, which is nervous
    tissue that picks up stimulus and allows the worm to respond to them. The excretory system of a
    worm is an anus. When they excrete, they pass out processed dirt that acts as a fertilizer to the
    land around them. The system also has nephridia, which removes metabolic waste through pores
    in its skin. Earthworms are also hermaphrodites, meaning they have both male and female
    reproductive gonads. To sum it up, earthworms are a very beneficial organism to the
    environment because of their ability to aerate the soil, produce fertilizers, and be used as bait and
    as a food source.
    Crayfish are freshwater crustaceans that live in water that does not freeze to the bottom.
    They breathe through gills that are like feathers and feed on both living and dead animals and
    plants. Their body is grouped into two main body parts, the cephalothorax and the abdomen.
    Most crayfishes grow up to 7 inches and resemble a minute crab. They also do not have a
    backbone but have an exoskeleton that molts in order for the organism to grow. Furthermore,
    they have an open circulatory system and have eyes on the side of their head and on their stalks.

    They have walking legs, antennae, and claws that are used to capture prey and sense their
    surroundings. Their reproductive system consists of swimmerets that release sperm from males
    in to the females. One major organ in their body is the green glands, which filter toxins out of
    the body. Their stomach has chitin teeth that are used to crush the food in order to make it easier
    to digest. They have a digestive gland that consists of enzymes that help digestive food in the
    body. Their long intestines process the nutrients in the food before being excreted. Crayfish can
    also be quite beneficial to the environment. They clean up the floor of the body of water they
    live in, can be used as bait, and are sometimes used as a food source by humans.

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