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list any 6 characteristics of Paramecium

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Answered by balivallabh
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CharacteristicsAppearance. Paramecia cells are characteristically elongated. ...
Cell structure. Paramecia are eukaryotes. ...
Asexual reproduction (binary fission) ...
Sexual reproduction (conjugation) ...
Autogamy (self-fertilization) ...
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Answered by smartyprince
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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 surfacethrough diffusion process.In paramecium, excretion is also done contractile vacuole and cytoproct.6.Reproduction: Asexually by transversebinary fission and sexually by conjugation.
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