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Contractile vacoule
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If a paramecium were to swim from a hypotonic environment to an isotonic one would the activity of its contractile vacuole increase or decrease?
The activity of the contractile vacoule would decrease. While in the hypotonic solution, water was moving into the paramecium because it had a higher solute concentration that the solution that it was in and water follows solute. So, the isotonic solution would contain the same solute concentration as the paramecium so there would be no net water movement. Therefore, the contractile vacoule would decrease in its activity because there would be no water entering or exiting the paramecium.
What would happen to the paramecium if it did not have a contractile vacuole?
If a paramecium did not have a contractile vacuole or it did not work it would fill with water and lyse.
What happens when the Paramecium gets close to the salt?
The water outside the paramecium has a higher salt concentration than the inside of the paramecium. Therefore, due to osmosis, the water inside the paramecium will move to the outside and dry out. It's the same thing happens when you put salt on a slug.
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.
What organ system cleans waste materials from the blood for exxcretion?
This is referred to as the Urinary System, which is itself a subset of the Renal System which has functions other than cleaning waste materials from the blood for excretion. The primary organs are the Kidneys.
Why is a contractile vacuole important to paramecium?
Water is constantly coming down it's concentrations gradient and osmotically entering the paramecium's cell. The cell would soon burst if there were not a way to offload much of this water, so contractile vacuoles do this job for the paramecium.
Excess water is pumped out of a paramecium by means of?
A pair of contractile vacuoles.
What removes excess water in a paramecium?
contractile vacuoles
How does the contractile in a paramecium help maintain homeostasis?
The contractile vacuole in a paramecium excretes excess freshwater in the organism. It does this continually because water is constantly diffusing into their cytoplasm. This occurs because freshwater paramecium live in a hypotonic environment.
Which organism eliminates water urea and mineral salts by means of nephridia?
The Earthworm eliminates by means of nephrdia.
What is the function of the contractile vacuole?
OsmosisIt eliminates excess water from the cytoplasm of freshwater protists.
How do protozoans pump out water?
I'm not sure about other Protozoans but Paramecium, a freshwater ciliate, pumps out excess water with it's Contractile Vacuoles.
What is the function of contractile vacuole in chlamydomonas?
it eliminates excess water form an organisms body
How does the concractile vacuole in a paramecium help maintain homeostasis?
They arf type of excretory organell.They remove excess water from cell.
What dos the contractile vacuole do?
It eliminates excess water from the cytoplasm of freshwater protists.
How does a unicellular paramecium get rid of its excess water is energy used?
water is pumped out of the cell through the contractile Vacuoles embedded in the plasma membrane!!!! -Answered by stefan alfonsi!
What can Contractile proteins are found in?
Contractile proteins are found in what?
