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C. Elegans

one of the only round worms that is not a parasite, cool! :)

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Caenorhabditis elegans, or a roundworm, is an organism that falls under the Nematoda phylum. The interesting face about this roundworm (not flatworm) is that it is not a parasite. C. elegans, as of 2012, is the only organism is to have its connectome, wiring, completely mapped out. Unlike the flatworms
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