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What keeps the number of parameciums at a steady level?
What keeps the paramecium at a steady level?How do the structures of paramecium help it survive?What is the function of the cilia of a paramecium?How...
How does a paramecium carries out the 7 life characteristics?
Paramecia are surrounded by small hairs called cilia which allow it to move (responsiveness)Paramecia engulf food via a specialised membranous feeding...
What are the hairs on Paramecium called?
Paramecium caudatum is a species of unicellular protist in the phylum Ciliophora. They can reach 0.33 mm in length and are covered with minute hair-li...
Does paramecium digest it food?
Paramecia digest protein, fat, and starch. Digestion takes place during the alkaline phase of the food-vacuole. The enzymes involved originate in the ...
How do paramecium maintain homeostasis?
A paramecium maintains homeostasis by responding to variations in the concentration of salt in the water in which it lives. (The concentration of a so...
How long have paramecium been on earth?
Paramecia were among the first ciliates to be seen by microscopists, in the late 17th century. They were probably known to the Dutch pioneer of protoz...
How does a paramecia get rid of waste?
Paramecia also get rid of waste such as nitrogen by simply letting it escape through the cell membrane via diffusion. Where does waste leave in parame...
Where do parameciums live?
Once called “slipper animalcules” due to their oblong shape, Paramecium live in a variety of watery environments, both fresh and salt, although they a...
What are parameciums life span?
The reported maxima of the clonal lifespan of Paramecium tetraurelia fall into two ranges: from 220 to 258 fissions and from 310 to 325 fissions. We f...