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What is the main function of contractile vacuoles in protozoans?

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The contractile vacuoles in protozoans keep the concentration of body fluids in the protozoan through osmoregulation. The concentration of solutes is higher at outside body than that of inside the body so the solutes move into the body through a process called osmoregulation.


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