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Paramecium: A Representative Free-Living Ciliate

Paramecia are often described as slipper shaped. Paramecium caudatum is 150 to 300 µm in length and is blunt anteriorly and somewhat pointed posteriorly. The organism has an asymmetrical appearance because of the oral groove, a depression that runs obliquely backward on the ventral side. The pellicle is a clear, …

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