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Synonyms paramecium
Type of ciliate, ciliated protozoan, ciliophoran

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A microprocessor tracks the movements of the paramecia and keeps score.
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Gause formulated his Competitive exclusion principle, through experiments involving paramecia.
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The player attempts to control the paramecia using a controller that is much like a typical video game controller.
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Riedel-Kruse emphasized that paramecia, being single-celled organisms, lack a brain and the capacity to feel pain.
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In Biotic Pinball, the player injects occasional whiffs of a chemical into the fluid, causing the paramecia to swim one direction or another.
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In some games, such as PAC-mecium, the player controls the polarity of a mild electrical field applied across the fluid chamber, which influences the direction the paramecia move.
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  • Paramecium: any member of the genus Paramecium
  • Paramecia was a non-mineralized Ediacaran alga with a differentiated, compartmentalized thallus; it probably had multiple phases in its lifecycle. Possible reproductive structures have been identified.
  • (Paramecium) A free living unicellular animal, a protozoan. The surface of paramecium is covered in cilia, that beat in wave patterns to power swimming. (section 7.2)
  • (Paramecium (paramecia, pl.)) A ciliated protist that lives in fresh water and eats other tiny organisms for food.
  • (Paramecium) Is larger than the ameba. It can be found in ponds with scum on them. It has more of a shape than an ameba, looking like the bottom of a shoe. It is covered with tiny hairs that help it move. These hairs are called cilia. The paramecium is able to move in all directions with its cilia.
  • (Paramecium) contains a reservoir of membrane-forming material in discoid vesicles for the purpose of producing food vacuoles. The food vacuoles form at the cytopharynx when the cytopharyngeal membrane and the discoid vesicles fuse. ...
  • (paramecium) protist commonly found in pond water; slipper-shaped with coordinated parallel lines of rowing cilia
  • Ciliate protozoa of the genus Paramecium that have an elongated body, rounded at the anterior end and a funnel shaped mouth at the extremity .