Increases efficiency of the body movement by allowing the effect of muscle contraction to be extremely localized.Resultant localized changes in the shape of groups of segments provide the basis for swimming crawling and burrowing.
The repetition of body parts provides safety to the organisms because if one segment fails,it may not necessarily lead to fatal coscequences as there are still other segments which can compliment the functions of the failed segment.
It permits modification of certain regions of the body for specialized functions such as feeding ,locomotion and reproduction.
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