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Paramecium ingest food by phagocytosis.
Food enters through oral grove to cell mouth, there it enters a food vacoule. The food vacoule fuses with lysosome and is broken down by enzymes.
The food is digested in cytoplasm.
All undigested food remains in now smaller food vacoule which goes to anal pore, special sight on plasma membrane, and release the contents by exocytosis in the enviroment.
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Is paramecium heterotrophic?
Yes. Paramecium do not preform photosynthesis, which would make them autotrophic, so they must ingest their food for energy. Bacteria, for instance.
How do parameciums eat food?
Paramecium are a single celled organism. On the side of a Paramecium is a large vacuole that looks a lot like a mouth. Swallowing water through the vacuole, the paramecium picks up small morsels of algae which pass straight into its cellular structure, as its cell wall is permeable to small solids. If you look at a Paramecium under a light microscope you will see tiny dots within it, this is the food that it has eaten.
Which protist has an oral groove?
The paramecium.
Is a paramecium a animal like protist?
Simply because it eats other organisms using a simple digestive system. And also Animal-like protist's move by cilia, Flagelum. All Protozoa including Paramecium are included in Animal like Protista , because 1 they ingest food and then digest it , 2 they show locomotion , , 3 they are heterotrophic .
What do amoeba and paramecium eat?
I don't know about paramecium but amoebas eat paramecium.
Adaptations of paramecium?
features of paramecium
Is a paramecium a phytoplankton?
A Paramecium is a protoctist
Is paramecium autotrophic?
A paramecium is not autotrophic. A paramecium is heterotrophic. The paramecium are single-celled organisms that are found in marine environments and stagnant ponds.
What is the scientific name for Paramecium pentaurelia?
The scientific name for Paramecium pentaurelia is Paramecium caudatum.
Where is the pellicle of a paramecium located?
do paramecium have pellicles
Is a paramecium a vertebrate or invertebrate?
No, paramecium has pellicle
Is a paramecium a eukaryotic cell?
Paramecium (Paramecium tetraurelia) is a very large eukaryotic cell
