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How does a Paramecium get food?


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Nutrition in Paramecium:

  1. Paramecium are unicellular eukaryotic organisms.
  2. They are ciliated (hair-like cells used for locomotion) organisms.
  3. Paramecium have holozoic nutrition.
  4. They engulf food from the surrounding environment.
  5. They use the coordinated movement of cilia to divert the water and food into them.

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