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How do the paramecium move? What is its movement called?

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As paramecium is a ciliate animal so it moves by its cilia. The rapid swimming is facilitated by the beating of fine and hair-like cilia, that cover the animal’s entire cell-body. Paramoecium moves with a speed of 1500 µm or more per second.
Movement by cilia is called Ciliary locomotion.

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