Unique adaptations:
- Nematodes epidermis(skin) is not made of cells, but a mass of cellular material and nuclei without separate membranes.
- There muscle cells only run in longitude direction. The contraction of these muscles causes the body to bend.
- Nematodas can only bend their body's from side to side, so when free-swimming, it thrashes its body from side to side, trying to move.
- You can find 90,000 individual nematodes in a rotting apple.
- There are over 236 species living in a cubic centimeter of square of mud.
- They are the second more diverse species, following the anthropods.
- They can easily adapt to any environment from the ocean, to your mouth, to old vinegar.
- Nematodes bodies are decorated with rings, ridges, bristles, and other distinctive features.
- Parasitic nematodes can cause economic damage, because of their significant role with agricultural soil and the decomposition of organic matter, which grows our food.
- Nematodes consume as much grass as a prairie dog colony.
- Some parasitic nematodes can be found in plant routes, while other live in the thin film of moisture around soil particles.
- Soil nematodes are classified by their eating habits.
- Some nematodes have specialized cells which release nitrogenous waste.
- Nematodes can cause disease by creating an ecosystem inside of different parts of the body.
- Nematodes can even be found floating in household dust.