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Explain in brief die central nervous system in cockroach.

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It includes nerve ring and the nerve cord.

Nerve ring :

It is situated in the head around the oesophagus and consists of a pair of supra-oesophageal ganglia, a pair of circum-oesophageal connectives & a pair of sub- oesophageal ganglia. The supra-oesophageal ganglia are also called as brain and is formed by the fusion of three pairs of ganglia. The brain is a bilobed structure which has three parts-

  • Protocerebrum
  • Deuterocerebrum
  • Tritocerebrum

The sub-oesophageal ganglia are also formed by the fusion of three pairs of ganglia. They remain situated below the oesophagus.



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