Paramecium Research Paper

Out of the two organisms we looked at, my favorite is the Paramecium. Paramecium are grouped with protists because, like all protists, they’re single celled organisms. Paramecium fall under the Protozoa Phylum in the Protist Kingdom. If an organism is in the Protozoa Phylum category, that means it is a small microscopic organism, which Paramecium are as they can only be seen under a microscope, and it reproduces by binary fission (splitting in half, becoming two new organisms), which Paramecium do to reproduce and “have children” of their own.
Paramecium have protoplasm, which is a jelly-like fluid inside the paramecium that’s like “the stuffing” of the cell. In the protoplasm is where materials of and in the paramecium are located. Paramecium are also covered with cilia. Cilia is tiny hairs that cover the outside and they help the paramecium move. Paramecium use the cilia to move by moving the cilia back and forth and this allows paramecium to move through water and in all different directions. Paramecium also contain two different types of nuclei, micronuclei and macronuclei. It wouldn’t be able to survive without the macronuclei, as it is responsible for normal, everyday activities and it couldn’t reproduce without the micronuclei.
The cilia on the outside that assist the paramecium with its movement also assist when the paramecium eats. As the cilia is moving back and forth to move the paramecium, it also pushes food into the “mouth” of the paramecium, where the food goes down a tube called the gullet to the protoplasm. There, the food is held in food vacuoles where they will be used and digested, and the nutrients will be distributed throughout the cell. The paramecium also has contractile vacuoles on both ends. These contractile values get rid of excess water that the paramecium absorbed through osmosis from its surroundings. Paramecium eat algae, bacteria, yeasts, and dead organic