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The ciliates are one of the most important groups of protists, common almost everywhere there is water - lakes, ponds, oceans, rivers, and soils, with many ectosymbiotic and endosymbiotic members, as well as some obligate and opportunistic parasites included. Ciliates tend to be large protozoa, a few reaching 2 mm in length, and are some of the most complex in structure. The name ciliate comes from the presence of hair-like organelles called cilia, which are identical in structure to flagella but typically shorter and present in much larger numbers with a different undulating pattern than flagella. Cilia occur in all members of the group (although the peculiar suctoria only have them for part of the life-cycle) and are variously used in swimming, crawling, attachment, feeding, and sensation.
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∙ 7y agoCiliates are a group of aquatic protozoans characterized by the hair-like growths on their body called cilia.
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∙ 9y agoCiliates can be found nearly everywhere on earth where water is present. They can typically found in lakes, oceans, soils, rivers, and the like.
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Paramecium is a representative of the?
Ciliates
Ciliates are members of the phylum?
Ciliates are part of the protozoan phylum ciliophora. All members of this phylum are parasites and feed on other organisms.
Is ciliates plant like or animal like?
protozoans that move through their aquatic habitats by the beating of cilia in coordinated waves; paramecia are ciliates. Ciliates reproduce asexually by binary fission and sexually by conjugation They move by cilias and are animal-like protists Habitat: aquatic enviroments. Has a micro and macro nucleus Micro-reproduction Macro-multiple genomes control the everyday functions Unicellular
What is protozon?
While there is no exact definition for the term protozoa, it often refers to a unicellular (one cell) heterotrophic (non-plants) protist , such as the amoeba and ciliates.
What eats actinosphaerium?
Actinosphaerium is a genus of heliozoans, which look similar to tiny sea urchins due to their spherical shape and radiating, spiny pseudopodia. They eat algae, protozoans, and other tiny life forms.
How do you ciliates eat?
Ciliates eat with their vacuole.
Are Ciliates autotrophic or heterotrophic?
ciliates are heterotrophs
Does ciliates cause malaria?
The ciliates do not cause malaria. Malaria is caused by protozoa. They have pseudopodia.
What is the function of ciliates cells in the lining of the oviduct?
What is the function of the ciliates cells in the lining of the oviduct
How do ciliates?
Ciliates, a unicellular protozoa, use their cilia, tiny hair-like organelles, to move around.
How ciliates eat?
with their feet
Paramecium is a representative of the?
Ciliates
Paramecium is a representative of?
Ciliates
Are ciliates helpful?
Yes.
Where do ciliates live?
Ciliates are a protozoa that feed off of smaller bacteria. They are most commonly found in lakes, streams and ponds.
What is the most complex protozoan?
ciliates is the most complex, because ciliates has hundreds of tiny hairlike structures known as cilia
How do ciliates deal with osmosis?
Some ciliates, like the paramecium, have contractile vacuoles that fill with water and then expel the water when they get full.
