FREE BIOLOGY AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT PARAMECIUM!

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FREE BIOLOGY AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT PARAMECIUM!

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Question 1: where do paramecium live?

Answer:

quiet or stagnant ponds

Question 2: what do the macro-nucleus and micro-nucleus do?

Answer:

macro-controls respiration, protien synthesis, and digestion micro-used only during reproduction

Question 3: what do paramecium eat?

Answer:

algal scum, and other microorganisms

Question 4: define avoidance behavior

Answer:

when a paramecium moves away form a negative or unpleasant stimulus

Question 5: why can't the paramecium change shape like the amoeba?

Answer:

it has a thick outer membrane called pellicle

Question 6: what is the oral groove?

Answer:

where food enters the paramecium

Question 7: what is the function of the contractile vacuole

Answer:

to remove excess water

Question 8: to what phylum and kingdom do paramecium belong?

Answer:

phylum ciliophora, kingdom protista

Question 9: wastes exit the paramecium through what structure?

Answer:

anal pore

Question 10: what is the function of the trichocysts?

Answer:

defense mechanism

Question 11: define conugation

Answer:

when two paramecium lie side by side and join at the mouth pore, sexual

Question 12: how do all members of the phylum ciliophora move?

Answer:

by tiny hair-like projections called cilia