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=Introduction= toc You're swimming in a body of water. You can't feel it, but there are tiny cells swimming in the water with you. These are Paramecium. The Paramecium are cells that have to survive. It has many structures to help it survive, and it is used for purifying water.

=Function of Paramecium= The function of the paramecium is to survive. It survives by using its special structures. According to Prentice Hall, Science Explorer the Paramecium use its cilia to move smoothly around its environment. It uses the food vacuole to help collect its food, which is its nutrients to survive. The oral groove helps it get its water. The pellicle gives the paramecium its shape. The anal pore helps the Paramecium get rid of the waste inside the Paramecium, so it has room to fit the food it needs in its body. And the last feature of the Paramecium that gives it its function is the contractile vacuoles, which gets rid of excess water in the body of the Paramecium. These all help the Paramecium survive which is its function. =Structures of Paramecium= The paramecium has many different parts to it. The paramecium looks like a oval with a little area cut out of it. Around the Paramecium is it’s cilia which are, according to Prentice Hall Science Explorer, hairlike projections that help it move. Inside the Paramecium is the cytoplasm. Floating in the cytoplasm are the contractile vacuoles and the Micro nucleus and the macro nucleus.([|Paramecium video]) The contractile vacuoles are two star shaped objects that get rid of water. The Micro nucleus and the micro nucleus help the Paramecium live. A small cut out is found in the paramecium, called the anal pore, helps let waste leave its body.



=How Paramecium purifies water= Paramecium can be very important for purifying water. (Ebiomedia) says that ¨Paramecium play an important part in cleaning up groundwater as it makes its way back to our wells and aquariums. According to (eniscuola), the first step in purifying water with paramecium is that they take the organic substances in the water and take them out of the water.The Aerobic Process is the most common way to purify water with Paramecium. In this process Oxygen is supplied to oxidize the organic substances. After this happens the water is purified. =Conclusion= The paramecium is the only cell to survive on its own. It is also the only cell that can purify water. The paramecium is very important because if it purifies water, then there will not be any bad diseases in the water, so the fish in the water will not get the diseases. =Sources=

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