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n. - Free-swimming mostly freshwater flatworms.

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  • Although animals such as planaria and starfish can regrow virtually any part of their bodies, humans have restricted regenerative capabilities.
  • Cut them in two or more pieces, each piece will grow into a perfect planaria again.
  • See, I will place this white planaria on my hand; do you notice that it protrudes something you might perhaps say was its tongue?
  • Within a year, the presence of RNAi had been documented in many other organisms, including fruit flies, trypanosomes, plants, planaria, hydra and zebrafish27.
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