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How does paramecium get food?

Updated: 8/9/2023
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Paramecium is a unicellular protozoan. Their body is covered with cilia .They are mostly found in freshwater and ponds. They feed on microscopic structures present in water. Their mean of obtaining food is basically linked to its stucture. It has a flipper shaped body having an oral groove at its anterior end. This groove is lined with cilia. Whenever the paramecium gets in contact to the food its ciliary movement pulls the food and direct it towards the groove. The cilia in the groove then direct food inside. The food gets inside in form of a food vacuole. Digestion and degradation takes inside the vacuole.Ther digested useful part is taken up by the cell and the waste is ejected out through the same groove.

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Paramecia obtain food their food through the oral groove.

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They use their cilia to sweep food into mouth-like openings.

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bye eating you out hahahahaahah they use there cilia to sweep the food into there mouths.

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Paramecium gets its food by engulfing it through its oral groove.

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through phototinisis

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through its cytoplasam

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