Nester's Microbiology: A Human Perspective
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Chapter 12, Problem 10MC
Which of the following statements regarding tapeworms is false?
a) They absorb nutrients from the host through their body wall.
b) They complete their life cycles in a single host.
c) They are hermaphroditic.
d) They cannot be transmitted from human to human.
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