paramecium
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The rate of contraction would decrease with decreasing osmolarity because more salt diffuses into the Paramecium.
From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022
Figure 36.25 Paramecium aurelia and Paramecium caudatum grow well individually, but when they compete for the same resources, the P. aurelia outcompetes the P. caudatum.
From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022
The illustration on the left shows a shoe-shaped Paramecium.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015
The ciliates, which include Paramecium and Tetrahymena, are a group of protists 10 to 3,000 micrometers in length that are covered in rows, tufts, or spirals of tiny cilia.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015
Ehrenberg found that by the repeated subdivisions of a single Paramecium, no fewer than 268,000,000 similar organisms might be produced in one month.
From Eternal Life by Drummond, Henry
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