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| My favorite animal-like protozoa are ciliates. They are the most complex protozoa with hundreds of tiny hair like structures beating back and fourth. | |
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| Aren't those called cilia. The crazy thing is that they can beat up to 60 times a second. | |
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| In order for them to eat food, they have to use their cilia to sweep food through the water toward them. | |
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| Did you know that ciliates have two kinds of nuclei? The macronucleus which control the fuctions of the cell and the micronucleus which passes material to another individual during sexual reproduction | |
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| There are many parts of a ciliate that people may not know of. The cilia is on the outside | |
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| and there is the micronucleus, macronucleus, contractile vacole, food passageway, food vacuole, and anal pore on the inside. Well, heres my house, but I had a great time learning with you. | |
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