the body of the animals belonging to this phylum is composed of small ring like segments "-------name the phylum and write two of its characteristic features
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Annelida
Annelids have a cylindrical body divided into a ring-like segment called as an annulus with true coelom and developed digestive system.
Characteristics of Annelids:
Bilaterally symmetrical and vermiform.
The body has more than two cell layers, tissues, and organs.
The body cavity is a true coelom, often divided by internal septa.
The body possesses a through the gut with mouth and anus.
The body possesses 3 separate sections, a prostomium, a trunk, and a pygidium.
It has a nervous system with an anterior nerve ring, ganglia, and a ventral nerve cord.
It has a true closed circulatory system.
It has no true respiratory organs.
Reproduction is normally sexual and gonochoristic or hermaphroditic.
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