Tardigrades are also known by what other name?

Answer Posted / jhill

Tardigrades or Tardigrada, also known as water bears or
moss piglets, are a phylum of small
invertebrates.Tardigrada, meaning slow stepper.

Tardigrades are short and 0.05mm - 1.2mm in body length,
plump, bilaterally symmetrical, segmented organisms. They
have four pairs of legs, each of which ends in four to
eight claws.

Tardigrades reproduce via asexual (parthenogenesis) or
sexual reproduction and feed on the fluids of plant cells,
animal cells, and bacteria.

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