0 a type of protozoan (= an organism with only one cell) that lives in water and swims by moving structures similar to hairs that are attached to its body --
1 a type of protozoan (= organism with only one cell) that lives in water and swims by moving structures similar to hairs that are attached to its body --
In the late 1950s he conducted an elegant series of experiments in his endeavours to discover what it is that mediates the synchronised movement of the paramecium's cilia.
Examples of protists with a pellicle are the euglenoids and the paramecium, a ciliate.
The paramecium is a single-cell organism, so has nothing remotely resembling a brain.
They are blind and wingless and may be no more than 0.139 mm (139 m) in length (smaller than a single-celled paramecium).
It, like the paramecium and blepharisma, is a ciliate (having short hair like extensions).
