paramecium
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Each is a rectangle about 300 micrometers long and 200 micrometers wide, roughly the size of a paramecium.
From Science Magazine ● Mar. 7, 2024
The book takes us from the clumsy inquisitiveness of an upstart paramecium searching for food several hundred million years ago to the restless seeking that propelled big-brained Homo sapiens into the space age.
From Nature ● Jan. 27, 2020
Others are covered in rows or tufts of tiny cilia that they coordinately beat to swim—typically paramecium.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2015
Strip malls line the town’s highways like paramecium.
From Salon ● Mar. 13, 2014
A typical paramecium, for instance, is about two microns wide, 0.002 millimeters, which is really very small.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
For example, paramecia and amoebas, which are protists that lack cell walls, have contractile vacuoles.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
But when it was inactivated by freezing, and then mixed in carefully measured proportions with healthy guinea-pig serum, the mixture developed a toxic factor which killed paramecia.
From Time Magazine Archive
Roskin proceeded to test the serum of cancerous rabbits, then of human patients, found to his delight that when properly prepared, it was highly toxic to paramecia.
From Time Magazine Archive
Dr. Sonneborn discovered that sensitive paramecia can be turned into killers at will.
From Time Magazine Archive
In the boiling water the frankfurters swished and lashed like artificially colored and magnified paramecia.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
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Microbiology - High School
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