SHAHEEN VOCATIONAL TRAINING INSTITUTE

JACOBABAD

TOPIC: TARDIGRGADE ANIMAL

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 CONTENT

Tardigrade Animal Introduction?

Where does a Tardigrade Live?
What is the size of Tardigrade?
What does Tardigrade Eat?
Life span of Tardigrade?

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What is a Tardigrade?
A Tardigrade is a microscopic aquatic
animal that lives in mosses and lichens.

0.5 mm

It looks like a little caterpillar that is

less than 1/2 mm in length.
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A Tardigrade has:

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Where does Tardigrade Live?
They can most easily be found living in a
film of water on lichens and mosses as
in send dunes soil, sediments, and leaf
litter

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 Tardigrade are shorter 0.05mm-1.2mm in body
length they have four pair of legs each of which
ends in four to eight claws.

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What does a Tardigrade eat?

Tardigrade eat virus bacteria plant cell

fluids of plant cell animal cells.

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Life span of Tardigrade?

The life span of Tardigrades Ranges from

three to four months for some species, up to
two years for other species not counting their
time in dormant states.