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What is the excretory organ of protozoa?


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Protozoa:

  1. Protozoa are unicellular eukaryotes that have relatively complex internal structures for complex metabolic activities.
  2. Amoeba, Paramoecium, Plasmodium are examples of protozoa.

Contractile vacuole :

  1. Excretory organ of protozoa is the Contractile vacuole which is a multipart organelle that collects water from the cytoplasm and removes it from the cell.
  2. Contractile vacuoles excrete waste by diffusion method.

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