### microprotozoan | ciliate:

Paramecia
* are eukaryotes
  - heterotrophs
  - organisms that are able to respond to chemical cues in their environment
* have a ciliated oral groove that facilitates the creation of the food vacuole
  - defense system that they can deploy when attacked or when they feel threatened
* have a weapon defense system that they deploy against their enemies
  - they use to ward off their enemies
  - anal pores for waste excretion
  - the ability to sense the environment
  - two nuclei, a macronucleus and a micronucleus
* regulate water by way of contractile vacuoles.
* reproduce asexually but can sexually rearrange genetic information.
* take in solid food via endocytosis.

### microprotozoan | ciliate:

Paramecium
* Most parameciums feed on bacteria
  - microorganisms
* Most parameciums have large nuclei
* Most parameciums live in aquatic environments
  - fresh water
* Paramecia live in water bodies such as lakes, puddles, ponds and rivers.
* Some paramecium can cause illness if living inside the human body.
* Some parameciums have complex types
  - organelles
  - use cilia
* also reproduces sexually by the process of conjugation.
* are a free-living, freshwater genus
  - capable of both sexual and asexual reproduction
  - ciliates
  - good hunters, and stun their prey with explosive darts, called trichocysts
  - helpful to humans in many ways
  - heterotrophic and feed on bacteria
  - known for their avoidance behavior
  - large enough to be visible to the unaided eye
  - protozoa, single celled animals
  - so large that the cells are easily found in bright field without using high contrast
  - unicellular organism
* belongs to the phylum a. cilia.
* can engage both in asexual and sexual reproduction.
* capture their prey through phagocytosis.
* ciliated protozoan
* common ciliate seen by students in introductory biology classes.
* consume food much like multicellular animals.
* feed on microorganisms.
* feeds mainly on bacteria
* free living ciliate which is found in fresh water.
* genus in the class of ciliates.
* has flagella and euglena has cilia
  - more than eight species
  - the ability to produce offsprings by means of sexual and asexual reproduction
  - two contractile vacuoles, one at each end, which fill and contract alternately
* includes cell membranes
  - corpi
  - cytoplasm
  - lips
  - mouths
  - plasma membranes
  - sections
* is easy to culture and can be studied without specialized laboratory equipment
  - found in most stagnant pools
  - large, common, readily available, and easily maintained in the laboratory
  - prevalent in freshwater, though some species can thrive in marine environment
  - quite similar to yeast
  - sensitive to contact with foreign bodies and to chemical substances in the water
  - the scientific, generic name, and it is used as the common name, as well
  - very active and is difficult to immobilize
* live in aquatic environments, usually in stagnant, warm water
* lives in fresh water.
* make decisions and do things.
* multinucleated protozoan.
* predatory microorganism found in the freshwaters.
* responds to stimuli either negatively or positively.
* shows sexual reproduction through conjugation to exchange their genetic material.
* single-celled ciliated protist that lives in ponds.
* singled cell organism.
* small unicellular organism that is plentiful in freshwater ponds.
* surface feeder.
* tiny unicellular organism found in water.
* typical ciliate.
* usually reproduces by the asexual method of binary fission.