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characteristics of Paramecium in points |
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Answer» Characteristics 1)Occurrence: It is found in freshwater ponds, pools, ditches, streams, rivers, lakes, etc. It is abundantly found in stagnant water, where decaying organic matter is in plenty. 2)Locomotion: It moves here and there with the help of cilia, which also functions as food capture. 3)Nutrition: It ingests bacteria and other microscopic organisms or minute protozoans. So nutrition is holozoic. 4)Digestion: intracellular. 5)Respiration and excretion: takes place by general body surface through diffusion process.In paramecium, excretion is also done contractile vacuole and cytoproct. 6)Reproduction: Asexually by transverse binary fission and sexually by conjugation |
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