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In an experimental investigation, Paramecia were placed in salt solutions of increasing osmolarity.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

Paramecia are unicellular protists that have contractile vacuoles to remove excess intracellular water.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

Paramecia and most ciliates reproduce asexually by mitotic cell division.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2018

Two cell divisions then yield four new Paramecia from each original conjugative cell.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015

HE Paramecia, noticed in the last chapter, have increased and multiplied their kind without any fear lest the due adjustment between population and food should fail to be preserved.

From Marvels of Pond-life A Year's Microscopic Recreations by Slack, Henry J.