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How does a tape worm feed​

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Tapeworms do not have a digestive tract. Instead, they absorb their nutrients from the gut contents of the host directly through their outside surface, tegument. New proglottids are constantly formed in the neck of the worm and along the length of the tapeworm they mature.

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Answer:

The tapeworm feeds off the food that the host is digesting.

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Tapeworms get into the body when a person eats or drinks something that's infected with a worm or its eggs. Once inside the body, the tapeworm head attaches to the inner wall of the intestines.

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