Introduction

Muscles and skeletons work together to produce movement. Not all skeletons are made of bone. The flea has an exoskeleton of chitin, to which muscles attach. The earthworm has an internal, fluid-filled hydrostatic skeleton. Longitudinal and circular muscles contract alternately and, since fluid is incompressible, the worm’s body moves.


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