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=Introduction= toc Do you know the fastest one of the fastest movers in the single celled world that is also related to bacteria? Well if you don’t then it is the paramecium. A paramecium can move so fast that in able to see it in a microscope you have to add a thickening agent to the water so it gets slowed down so that you can see it in the water. The paramecium consists of nine parts such as the large and small nucleus, cytoplasm, oral groove, food vacuole, cilia, anal pore, contractile vacuoles, and a pellicle. All of these parts helps the paramecium do its job which is to clean out the bad bacteria in freshwater. It is good that the paramecium moves so fast because it can gets its job done very quickly. Furthermore, a paramecium can only live for about four days before it dies but it can reproduce using a process called the Binary Fission. The Binary Fission is the process where the paramecium cell wall splits in half making to more new paramecium and then grows a new cell wall. After a paramecium goes through this process multiple times its lifespan expands and it will finally die after about 40 time.

=Parts Of The Paramecium.= A paramecium is a very small cell that you can only see under a microscope. A paramecium consists of nine small parts that all do a different job to help the paramecium. Waste leaves through the Anal Pore. A Pellicle is a stiff but flexible covering that surrounds the paramecium and gives it shape. The two Contractile vacuoles collect excess water from the cytoplasm and expels it from the cell. Thousands of Cilia project through the Pellicle. The beating Cilia enable a paramecium to move smoothly in one direction. The Food Vacuole is a crater on top of the fold near the head(oral groove) that allows the paramecium to gather food. The Oral Groove is a funnel-like indentation lined with the cilia that moves water containing food, gathers it, and also makes a clear lane making the paramecium move to its full potential.

=Studying The Paramecium.=

The paramecium is a very small cell and is very hard to study. The cell is only 1.5 mm long. Furthermore, a paramecium is one of the fastest movers in the whole single-celled world. It is so fast that you half to put a thickening agent into the water to be able to study it. On the other hand, the paramecium can change into a lot of different shapes and sizes so it’s hard to identify its original shape. If you are looking through a microscope and you see a crater like thing on top of it’s head getting bigger and smaller then you are looking at its food vacuole. = = =The Paramecium's Job.= Paramecium have their own reproducing stage or process called Binary Fission. Binary Fission is when a cell wall starts to form right in the middle of the parameciums body making the paramecium split in half forming two new paramecium. In addition, this process makes the parameciums lifespan longer. A paramecium can keep reproducing until it eventually gets so small that it can’t reproduce anymore or it finally dies. Binary Fission also belongs to bacteria.

=Does a Paramecium Reproduce?= A paramecium’s lifespan is usually only four days if it does not reproduce before that. A paramecium can reproduce using a process called Binary Fission. It’s what happens when the paramecium splits its cell wall in half and grows a new border. after the paramecium goes through this process as many times as it can (which is about 40) until it finally dies. A paramecium can also get to the point where it gets so small that it will just die.



=Paramecium's Lifespan.= The paramecium’s job is to clean out the fresh water filled with bacteria. Although a paramecium is a type of bacteria it still takes out all of all the bad bacteria. The paramecium is one of the fastest movers in the single celled world and it moves so quickly that you can’t even see it through a microscope. When a paramecium moves it is like looking at a time lapse that you would take on your phone. It is actually good the the paramecium moves so fast because it can get its job done as soon as quick as possible.



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= = =Conclusion= At the end of this essay you can probably tell that the paramecium is a very unique cell in many ways. The paramecium has nine parts to it that helps finish its job. Studying a paramecium is very hard because it is one of the fastest movers in the whole single celled world and it can shape shift in many different ways. You have to remember that the paramecium’s job is to clean out the water containing bad bacteria cells in it. And finally, a paramecium can makes its lifespan about 156 longer if it keeps reproducing until it can’t anymore and finally falls apart and dies. The average parameciums life span lasts about four days without reproducing but it can reproduce between 1-40 times raising its longest lifespan to be about 160 days.

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