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A single cell that eats, swims, and avoids your finger better than most men avoid commitment.
means A tiny, slipper-shaped single-celled organism covered in hair-like cilia that beats in waves to paddle it through pond water.
from From Greek 'paramekes,' meaning oblong or elongated — a fitting name, since under a microscope the creature looks like a tiny slipper or cigar. The scientific name was coined in the 1700s when early microscopists, peering through their primitive lenses at pond scum, needed a word for this odd little oval that swam, ate, and multiplied right in front of their eyes.
- locomotion
- covered in thousands of tiny beating hairs called cilia
- sex life
- swaps genetic material via conjugation instead of reproducing normally
- brainless navigation
- reverses direction when it bumps into obstacles, no neurons needed
- waste disposal
- uses a contractile vacuole to literally pump out excess water