#paramecium caudatum

[microbes-in-hats]

Paramecium caudatum

Photo credit: Wikipedia User Deuterostome

[biologist4ever]

Paramecium Caudatum showing nucleus, organelles, contractile vacuole complex, food vacuoles & oral groove

[bucket-of-mold]

Bad video, but they are just Little Guys !!!!

Seriously no one understands how cute microbes are they're just little circles or ovals most of the time and & they're alive

[aloneworldwebinfo]

Paramecium यह एककोशिकीय सिलिअटेड प्रोटोजोआ का एक जीनस है, जो चप्पल के आकार के जैसे दीखते हैं और वह मीठे पानी, समुद्री और खारे पानी में पाए जाते हैं। दुनिया भर में इसकी 9-10 प्रजातियां हैं और इन प्रजातिओं में से Paramecium Aurelia और Paramecium Caudatum यह दो आम प्रजातिया है।

Paramoecium की खोज एक महान वैज्ञानिक Antonie van Leeuwenhoek(एंटोनी वैन लीउवेनहोक) ने सन 1678 इसवी में की थी।

तो इस पोस्ट में हम पैरामीशियम के बारे में और जानकारी जानेंगे जैसे की पैरामीशियम क्या है?, पैरामीशियम का चित्र कैसा है?, paramoecium diagram, पैरामीशियम में प्रजनन कैसे होता है?, paramecium characteristics इत्यादी।

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KONVID-19 È QUA

Dopo tanti annunci lo strumento di calcolo di rischio contagio Sars-Cov2 è arrivato sui vostri teleschermi ma prima che clicchiate sul link sottostante... DAVVERO CREDEVATE CHE NON VI AVREI CONFEZIONATO UN PIPPONE?! 

Il programma di calcolo porta il mio nome ma è frutto di un sanguinoso lavoro di gruppo - nel senso che siamo riusciti a picchiarci con ferocia su ogni singolo passaggio - che è cominciato ad Agosto (quando il coronavirus quasi sembrava un ricordo) ed è culminato con questo rilascio.

Il mio affetto va a @herr-papero e @gigiopix, completamente inadatti a capire alcunché di medicina come altrettanto (se non più) io di informatica e matematica. Mettersi d’accordo è stato peggio di quella volta che un chihuahua mi ha azzannato i coglioni e poi s’è messo a roteare senza mollarli. @heresiae, però, li ha minacciati virtualmente con l’ascia che le ho regalato ed equilibrio è stato raggiunto. Grazie anche a @firewalker, @spaam e @thec8h10n4o2 che credevo fossero dalla mia parte a dar contro a quegli stitici rabbiosi a 8 bit e invece mi hanno sommerso di dati che mi avrebbero fatto preferire avere il funzionamento biologico di un Paramecium caudatum. E infine le mie scuse profuse ai pazienti tester (tra cui @surfer-osa, @masuoka, @frauigelandtheboys​, @lamagabaol @nusta @obscureobject @seiseiseitan @salfadog ) per averci permesso di individuare bachi e sbavature.

Un ultima cosa e poi giuro basta...

Questo strumento NON FA PREVISIONI MEDICO-DIAGNOSTICHE ma serve solo a far capire con una semplificazione visiva quali sono i comportamenti più rischiosi di altri e i metodi più efficaci per evitare di farvi coronare da questo virus del cazzo.

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[adelicateculturecell]

"When a microbes is traveling down but not swimming, it is sedimenting. Scientists measure the sedimentation rate of microbes by immobilizing them and watching them fall through water. Using that method, they've found that the sedimentation rate of Paramecium tetraurelia is about 67.4 micrometers per second, and the sedimentation rate for Paramecium caudatum was about 123 micrometers per second. So that gives you a baseline for some ciliates."

Journey to the Microcosmos- Bursaria: Giant Gravity-Sensing Vacuums

Images Originally Captured by Jam's Germs

[theartmuseumoflifescience]

顕微鏡で見える世界

0:08- ゾウリムシ（Paramecium caudatum） 0:27- ミバエ（Fruit Fly） 0:36- ミドリムシ（Euglena） 0:45- 肉に生えたカビ（Meat Mold） 1:01- 赤血球（Red Blood Cells） 1:17- 端脚類の循環（Amphipod Circulation） 1:24- 細菌（Bacteria） 1:34- オオミジンコ（Daphnia magna） 1:44- ヒドラがミジンコを捕らえたところ（Hydra Ensnaring Daphnia） 1:53- ヒドラ（Hydra） 2:01- ヒト精子（Human Sperm） 2:11- プラナリア（Planarian Worm） 2:22- アオミドロ（Spirogyra） 2:44- パン酵母（Baker’s Yeast） 2:52- 貝虫（Ostracods） 3:01- ヒト骨（Human Bone） 3:09- 旋毛虫の分裂（Ciliate Dividing） 3:17- 緩歩動物（Tardigrade） 3:25- コケの胞子体（Moss Sporophyte Capsule） 3:35- ゴキブリ触覚（Hissing Cockroach Antenna） 3:44- ミドリムシと赤血球（Euglena & Red Blood Cells） 3:54- クラミドモナス（Chlamydomonas reinhardtii） 4:14- 大腸菌と赤血球（E.coli & Red Blood Cells）

The Amazing Microscopic World

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Ecology

Ecology is the study of how organisms interact with each other, and their environment.

Population- A group of individuals of a single species living in 1 area who can interbreed and interact with each other

Community- All of the organisms living in one area

Ecosystem- All of the organisms and the abiotic factors with which they interact

Abiotic factors- Nonliving factors like temperature, weather, water, wind, rocks, and soil.

Biotic factors- The organisms with which an organism might react, like birds, insects, predators, and prey

Biosphere- The global ecosystem

Niche- What an organism eats, and needs to survive

Properties of Populations

Properties are defined by size, density, and dispersion.

Size

The total number of organisms in a population. Births, deaths, immigration, and emigration limit the size of the population.

Density

The number of individuals per unit area or volume. Density is an extremely hard property to calculate, so ecological scientists use sampling techniques and estimate the number of organisms living in an area. Marking and recapture is an example of one of these techniques.

Dispersion

Dispersion is the pattern of which individuals are spaced within the area. Clumped is the most common pattern of dispersion, for example, fish swim in schools. Some organisms, like specific plants, live in a uniform pattern. These plants secrete toxins that keep other plants within a certain distance from them. Random spacing happens when there are no attractions or repulsions.

Population Growth

All populations have biotic potential. The biotic potential is the maximum rate at which a population could increase given ideal conditions. Some factors that influence biotic potential are:

Age when reproduction begins

Life span during which the organism is able to reproduce

Number of reproductive periods

Number of offspring an organism can have at 1 time

Some characteristics of growth are common with all organisms. Growth begins slow, then it explodes in a period known as exponential growth. Once the organisms reach carrying capacity, they will either become stable, rising and falling consistently or enter a death phase, where their population will crash. This may be caused by competition, waste, or predation, for example.

Fun fact: The human population has been in its exponential growth phase for 300 years.

The carrying capacity (K) is the limit to the number of individuals who can occupy an area at one time. Carrying capacity does not stay the same. It changes as environmental conditions change.

Reproductive Strategies

Organisms who are opportunistic, and reproduce rapidly when the environment is uncrowded and resources are plentiful are called r-strategists. Rodents are r-strategists.

K-strategists, however, do what they can to maximise their population size near the carrying capacity for the environment. Elephants and monkeys are K-strategists.

r-strategists have many small young, while K-strategists have few, large young

r-strategists provide little to no parenting, while K-strategists provide intensive parenting.

r-strategists mature rapidly, while K-strategists mature slowly

r-strategists reproduce once, while K-strategists reproduce many times.

Limiting Factors

Limiting factors limit population growth. There are two kinds:

Density-dependent factors: These are factors like competition for food, the buildup of waste, predation, and disease, that increase as the population increases

Density-independent factors: These are factors whose occurrence have nothing to do with the population size, such as earthquakes, storms, and volcanic eruptions.

The Hare and Lynx Study

The Hare and Lynx study is a very famous study on population growth. It follows the population of snowshoe hares and lynx at the Hudson Bay Company from 1850 to 1930 and shows connected fluctuations between the two animals populations. 

The Lynx’s cycle is caused by cyclical fluctuations in the hare’s population while the hare’s cycle is likely caused by the presence of resources

Community Structure and Population Interactions

There are 5 main categories of interaction: competition, predation, parasitism, mutualism, and commensalism.

Competition

G.F. Gause developed the competitive exclusion principle after he studied the effects of competition within a lab.

Gause studied the species Paramecium caudatum and Paramecium aurelia. When cultured separately, they both grew rapidly and levelled off at carrying capacity. When the cultures grew together. P.aurelia drove the other species to extinction. His conclusion was that: Two species cannot coexist if they share the same niche.

If two organisms share a niche in the same area, either 1 organism will be driven to extinction, or it will adapt to exploit different resources. This is known as resource partitioning. 

Something similar to resource partitioning happened with the Galapagos finches. As they were isolated, adaptive radiation occurred, changing the shapes of their beaks so that they could exploit the most available resources. This divergence in adaptation is called character displacement

Predation

Predation either occurs when an animal eats another, or an animal eats a plant. Animals and plants have evolved defences like poison, and camouflage to avoid predation. Passive defences are characteristics like cryptic colouration and do not expend energy, while active defences, like fleeing or hiding, expend energy.

Aposematic colouration- Bright colouring found on poisonous animals warning predators to stay away

Batesian mimicry- When a harmless animal mimics the colouration of a poisonous one, such as the viceroy butterfly who looks similar to the monarch butterfly

Mullerian mimicry- When two or more poisonous species resemble each other to gain safety in numbers.

Feeding

Herbivores eat plants, carnivores eat meat, and detritivores are also known as scavengers. They are organisms like hyenas and vultures, who feed on the dead organic matter known as detritus

Mutualism

This is a symbiotic relationship where both participants benefit, such as bacteria in the human gut microbiome. The bacteria live in the intestine and produce vitamins that the host needs.

Commensalism

This is a symbiotic relationship where one organism benefits and one is neither helped nor harmed, for example, barnacles live on whales, giving them access to food. The whale is unbothered by their presence.

Parasitism

This is a symbiotic relationship where one organism benefits and one is harmed. Mosquitoes drink other animals blood. They get food, while the organism loses blood and an annoying allergic reaction that drives people crazy.

The Food Chain

The food chain is the pathway that energy is transferred from one trophic or feeding level to another. Only 10% of the energy from one trophic level is usable for the trophic level above it. So if at the beginning of the food chain, there is 1000g of plant matter (producers) the food chain can support 100g of primary consumers (herbivores) 10g of secondary consumers (carnivores) and 1g or tertiary consumers (carnivores)

In an environment, food chains link together to form complex food webs. Animals can occupy different trophic levels as a result. For example, when a person eats vegetables, they are a primary consumer, but when they eat steak, they are a tertiary consumer.

Producers

Producers are able to convert light energy into chemical bond energy. They have the greatest biomass of the trophic levels. They include plants, diatoms, and phytoplankton. Diatoms are photosynthetic algae that live in the ocean. Phytoplankton and diatoms make up the majority of producers in marine and freshwater ecosystems.

Primary Consumers

Primary consumers eat producers, and are herbivores, for example, grasshoppers and zooplankton

Secondary Consumers

Secondary consumers eat primary consumers and are carnivores. Frogs and small fish are secondary consumers.

Tertiary Consumers

Tertiary consumers eat secondary consumers and are at the top of the food chain. They have the least biomass and are the least stable trophic level. Some examples are hawks or sharks.

Energy and Productivity in Food Chains

Productivity is the rate at which organic matter is created by producers. Gross primary productivity is the amount of energy converted into chemical energy by photosynthesis per unit time in an ecosystem. Net primary productivity is the gross primary productivity minus the energy used by the primary producers for respiration.

Biological Magnification

Organisms in higher trophic levels have a greater concentration of accumulated toxins. This is called biological magnification. This nearly killed the bald eagle, due to a pesticide Americans were using in the 50s.

Decomposers

Not included in the pyramid are decomposers, usually bacteria and fungi who break down dead material so it can be used in the soil by plants. (It’s the circle of life)

Ecological Succession

Communities are not stable. Major and minor disturbances constantly cause fluctuations in population size. Sometimes, large disturbances, called blowouts like volcanic eruptions can completely destroy a community, or in some cases, a whole ecosystem. What follows is ecological succession. If the rebuilding takes place on an area where even the soil is gone, it is primary ecological succession, as the soil must be made first. The first organisms to live in a barren area are pioneer organisms. These are most often lichens. Lichens are symbionts made of algae and fungi, but also mosses, who arrive by spores. Grasses begin to grow, then bushes, and then trees.

When the soil is left intact, secondary succession will take place. This often happens after forest fires and is much faster.

Biomes

Biomes are large regions of the earth whose distribution depends on rainfall and temperature. Biomes are separated by these abiotic factors, but also by the vegetation and animals who live there. 

Changes in altitude produce changes similar to changes in latitude. The Appalachian Mountains, and the Rockies, and coastal ranges in the west have similar trends in their biomes.

Marine

This biome is the largest. It covers 3/4 of earth’s surface

It is the most stable biome, with very little temperature fluctuation due to waters high specific heat.

Provides most of Earth’s food and oxygen

Subdivided into regions based on the sunlight they receive, distance from shore, water depth, and whether it is the open ocean or ocean bottom.

Open oceans are nutrient-poor

Tropical Rain Forest

Found near the equator with a lot of rainfall, stable temperatures, and high humidity

Cover 4% of Earth’s land surface and account for more than 20% of the earth’s net carbon fixation (food production)

It has the greatest species diversity. It has 50x the number of species of trees than a temperate forest.

Dominant trees form a dense canopy preventing rain from falling directly onto the forest floor.

Many trees are covered in epiphytes. These are photosynthetic plants that grow on other trees. 

Desert

A desert receives less than 10 inches of rainfall per year and is too harsh for grass.

It experiences the greatest temperature fluctuations. During the day, the surface can be as hot as 70 degrees celsius, however, heat is rapidly lost at night.

Plants like cacti evolved shallow roots to collect as much water as possible.

Some plants evolved to grow only after hard rains. These plants will germinate, send up shoots and flowers, and die after a few weeks

Most desert animals are nocturnal or crepuscular. They burrow themselves or hide in the shade during the day.

A cacti’s spines are modified leaves.

Temperate Grasslands

Cover huge areas in both the temperate and tropical parts of the world

Low total annual rainfall, with the uneven seasonal occurrence of rain, preventing forests from growing.

Bison and antelope tend to live here.

Temperate Deciduous Forest

Found in the northeast of North America, south of the taiga. Trees here drop their leaves during the winter.

More plant variety than in the taiga

Has vertical stratification of plants and animals. Some live on the ground, some live on low branches, and some live in the treetops.

Rich soil because of decomposing leaf litter.

Conifer Forest-Taiga or Boreal Forest

Found in Northern Canada, much of Europe, and Russia

Dominated by conifer forests like spruce

The landscape is dotted with lakes, ponds, and bogs.

The abundance of rain, allowing trees to grow

Very cold winters

The largest terrestrial biome

Heavy snowfall, trees have downwards pointing branches to keep snow from acumulating

More species variety than in the tundra

Large temperature range

Tundra

Located in the far north of North America, Europe, and Asia

Called the permafrost, due to its permanently frozen subsoil in the farthest point north

Called the frozen desert, little to no rainfall

Appears to have gently rolling treeless plains with lakes, ponds, and bogs

Birds migrate during the winter

Low species diversity

Chemical Cycles

Water Cycle

Water evaporates from the earth, condenses to form clouds, then rains over the oceans and the land. Some of the rainwater percolates through the soil deeply enough that it enters a river or stream and returns to the sea. A lot of water evaporating from earth transpires from plants

The Carbon Cycle

Cell respiration by animals and bacterial decomposers add carbon dioxide to the air as a waste product. 

When fossil fuels are burnt, they add carbon dioxide to the air as a byproduct

Photosynthesis uses carbon dioxide from the air and produces oxygen as a waste product.

The Nitrogen Cycle

Very little nitrogen enters ecosystems directly from the air. Most comes as a result of bacteria.

Nitrogen-fixing bacteria live in the nodules of legumes and convert free Nitrogen (N2) into the ammonium ion (NH4+)

Nitrifying bacteria convert the ammonium ion (NH4+) into nitrites (NO2-) and then into nitrites (NO3-)

Denitrifying bacteria convert nitrates (NO3-) into free atmospheric nitrogen (N2)

Decomposers break down dead organic matter into ammonia (NH4+)

Humans and the Biosphere

As humanity has grown in size, we have begun to cause massive amounts of damage to the ecosystem. We deforest millions of acres of land, destroy wetlands, cause groundwater contamination and depletion, eliminate habitats, and have caused the extinction of countless species. 

Eutrophication of Lakes

Eutrophication is caused by runoff from sewage and manure from pastures. These products increase the nutrients in the water, causing excessive growth of algae and other disruptive plants. Shallow areas become choked by the excess growth of weeds. This kills the photosynthetic organisms of the lake to die, reducing the depth of the lake and detrivores deplete oxygen in the lake as they break down the dead organisms. This vicious cycle continues until life in the lake has gone extinct.

Acid Rain

Acid rain is caused by pollutants in the air from fossil fuel combustion. Nitrogen and sulfur pollutants mix to create nitric, nitrous, and sulfuric acids which drops the pH of rain to around 5.6.

Toxins

Toxins from industry farming enter the food chain. Antibiotics found in beef and chicken have been found to have nasty effects on the people who eat them, as some may be carcinogens or teratogens.

Global Warming

Burning fossil fuels has released large amounts of CO2 into the air. This causes the greenhouse effect, where the excess carbon dioxide in the air absorbs the infrared radiation reflecting off of the earth, raising the average temperature. If the earth’s temperature were to increase by 1 degree, the polar ice caps would melt, causing mass flooding, massive weather fluctuations, and an increase in tropical storms.

Depleting the Ozone Layer

Our use of chlorofluorocarbons, which are chemicals used as refrigerants and in aerosol has created a hole in the ozone layer, allowing more UV radiation to enter the atmosphere, increasing the rate of skin cancer worldwide.

Introduction of Invasive Species

There are many cases where humans accidentally bring nonnative species to new environments. Because of their lack of predators, these species outcompete the native species, leading to massive consequences. For example, the African Honeybee was brought to Brazil in 1956, and have been making their way through the Americas. These bees managed to kill 10 people by 2000.

Pesticides v. Biological Control

Farmers use pesticides to keep pesticides from eating and ruining their crops. These chemicals increase food production, however, they may also be exposing humans to nasty carcinogens. It also causes the development of resistant strains of pests. Along with that, they travel up the trophic levels and may cause harm to species who are essential to their environment.

Biological control may be a safer alternative to pesticides. Some of these methods are crop rotation, introducing natural enemies of the pest, natural plant toxins instead of synthetic ones, and insect birth control.

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Competencia con otras especies y división de recursos

En la competencia interespecífica, dos especies usan el mismo recurso limitado. La competencia tiene un efecto negativo en ambas especies (interacción).

El nicho de una especie básicamente es su función ecológica, la cual se define por el conjunto de condiciones, recursos e interacciones que necesita (o de los que puede hacer uso). El principio de exclusión competitiva dice que dos especies no pueden coexistir si ocupan exactamente el mismo nicho (si compiten por recursos idénticos). Dos especies cuyos nichos se superponen pueden evolucionar por selección natural para tener nichos más diferentes, lo que resulta en una partición de recursos. Los seres humanos compiten entre ellos todo el tiempo: por empleos, premios deportivos, citas, lo que sea. Pero, ¿competimos con otras especies? Si has ido de campamento alguna vez y un mapache, oso o algún otro animal ha robado tu comida, entonces tienes cierta idea de lo que es la competencia interespecífica: la competencia entre miembros de diferentes especies que usan recursos limitados superpuestos.

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A menudo los recursos en un hábitat son limitados y muchas especies compiten para obtenerlos. Por ejemplo, las plantas de un jardín compiten entre ellas por los nutrientes del suelo, el agua y la luz del sol. El efecto global de la competencia interespecífica es negativo para las especies que participan en ella (es una interacción). Esto es, a cada especie le iría mejor si la otra no estuviera presente.En este artículo veremos el concepto de nicho ecológico y cómo el que las especies tengan nichos semejantes conduce a la competencia. También veremos cómo las especies pueden evolucionar por selección natural para ocupar nichos con más diferencias, lo que reparte los recursos y minimiza la competencia.Cada especie encaja en una comunidad ecológica a su manera y tiene sus propios rangos de tolerancia para diversos factores ambientales. Por ejemplo, el nicho de una especie de pez puede estar definido parcialmente por los rangos de salinidad (cantidad de sal), pH (acidez) y temperatura que puede tolerar, así como por los tipos de alimento que puede comer.Como veremos, dos organismos con exactamente el mismo nicho no pueden sobrevivir en el mismo hábitat (porque compiten por exactamente los mismos recursos, de forma que uno acabará por extinguir al otro). Sin embargo, las especies cuyos nichos solo se superponen parcialmente pueden coexistir. También pueden evolucionar durante largos periodos de tiempo para hacer uso de otros recursos diferentes que se superpongan menos. 

El principio de exclusión competitiva nos dice que dos especies no pueden tener exactamente el mismo nicho en un hábitat y coexistir de manera estable. Esto es porque las especies con nichos idénticos tienen las mismas necesidades, lo que significa que competirían exactamente por los mismos recursos.

Un ejemplo famoso del principio de exclusión competitiva se muestra en la imagen siguiente, que muestra dos tipos de microorganismos unicelulares, Paramecium aurelia y Paramecium caudatum. Cuando se les cultiva de manera individual en un laboratorio, ambas especies prosperan. Pero cuando se cultivan en el mismo tubo de ensayo (hábitat) con una cantidad fija de nutrientes, el crecimiento de ambos es pobre y finalmente P. aurelia supera a P. caudatum en la competencia por alimento, lo que provoca la extinción de este último.

Partición de recursos

La exclusión competitiva puede evitarse si una o las dos especies en competencia evolucionan para usar un recurso diferente, ocupar un área distinta del hábitat o alimentarse a otra hora del día. El resultado de este tipo de evolución es que dos especies similares usan recursos que no se superponen y por lo tanto tienen nichos distintos. Esto se llama partición de recursos y ayuda a que las especies coexistan porque hay una menor competencia directa entre ellas. 

Las lagartijas Anolis que se encuentran en Puerto Rico son un buen ejemplo de partición de recursos. En este grupo, la selección natural ha llevado a la evolución de especies distintas que usan recursos diferentes. La imagen siguiente muestra la partición de recursos entre 111111 especies de lagartijas Anolis. Cada especie vive en su propio hábitat preferido, definido por el tipo y la altura de la vegetación (árboles, arbustos, cactus, etcétera), la cantidad de luz solar y la humedad, entre otros factores. 

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[biologist4ever]

Amoeba hunts and kills paramecia by phagocytosis

[1989doolittle]

Hi would u like some single-celled protists in this trying time (specifically paramecium caudatum)

Committing to the dana scully coding and got my own microscope at home <3 have a weird shitty picture of a blue mold specimen

[mednotes]

Stop procrastinating c:

I did hehe. I woke up today and first thing I did was fungi revision, I finished chemistry test and now I am about to kick Paramecium caudatum's cytopyge.thanks!

[healthtimetaylor]

Electromagnetic fields induce oxidative stress in aquatic organisms, suggesting a possible negative effect of transmission lines.

PMID:  Int J Radiat Biol. 2017 08 ;93(8):818-830. Epub 2017 May 25. PMID: 28452248 Abstract Title:  Response of aquatic protists to electric field exposure. Abstract:  PURPOSE: To test the effects of short-term exposure of aquatic organisms to electric field (EF) with negligible magnetic component.MATERIALS AND METHODS: We built a plate capacitor that served as a source of EF of strengths that can be found in nature near transmission lines. We exposed two cultured protist species Euglena viridis and Paramecium caudatum to EFs for 24 hours and monitored their abundance, morphology, intracellular superoxide anion (by dihydroethidium [DHE]), hydrogen peroxide by (HDCF) and lipid peroxidation (MDA) contents, catalase (CAT) and superoxide dismutase (SOD) activity.RESULTS: We found that even short-term exposure to low strength EF causes changes in population abundance, morphology and oxidative stress response in both species. As the EF strength increased, abundance of both species decreased. However, at weaker EFs, fission rates were seemingly promoted. We noted a decrease in size in both organisms in directions perpendicular to their fission planes correlated with EF strength. DHE and HDCF fluorescence intensity and SOD activity were higher in organisms exposed to the stronger EFs.CONCLUSIONS: We suggest that the electric component of the field, rather than the magnetic, is the main cause of all the noted effects. As a result, aquatic organisms should be given greater importance in studies assessing the effects of EMFs in spite of the attenuating effects of water to EF strengths.

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[jagjiteducationzone]

paramecium Caudatum: Habitat' Structure and Locomotion Artical by jagjit gupta In this article we will discuss about Paramecium Caudatum:- 1. Habit, Habitat and Culture of Paramecium Caudatum 2. Structure of Paramecium Caudatum 3. Locomotion 4. Nutrition 5. Respiration and Excretion 6. Osmoregulation 7. Behaviour 8. Reproduction 9. Aberrant Behaviour in Reproduction 10. Some Cytoplasmic Particles. Contents: Habit,

[dasha-through-the-snow]

Paramecium caudatum was the first thing I saw under the microscope.

Heterochromia is homophobic.