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To slow the paramecium down.

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How does a paramecium respond to a cotton fiber?

The paramecium will first go to the cotton fiber and after realizing that it is not a positive stimulus (food), it will move away from the cotton fiber and search for another food.


When a chemical is added to a microscope slide with a live paramecium the paramecium moves away from the chemical. This movement is an example of?

its an example of a response to a stimulus.


When a chemical is added to a microscope slide with a live paramecium the paramecium moves away from the chemical This movement is an example of?

its an example of a response to a stimulus.


How do you use paramecium in a sentence?

The paramecium has a stiffer cell membrane than the amoeba.


How do paramecium get around?

they use its cilia


Which protists use cilia for locomotion?

Paramecium, becasue the cilia floats through flugela and gets food through hair like structurs


Which structures surround a paramecium?

short, hairlike strands called cilia sourround a paramecium. They use them for feeding and movement.:)


What structure does the paramecium use for respiration?

Their cell wall.


How does the paramecium use each types of cilia?

It uses it idiots!


Which protist has an oral groove?

The paramecium.


Do paramecium use chlorophyll?

Plants and algae cells have chloroplasts, photosynthesis is conducted in chloroplasts. Paramecium do not photosynthesize they get their food from the water they live in. So they do not need chloroplasts.


How does paramecium?

by use of cilia- hairlike projections fromt he cell membrane