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Keywords: slipper, cilia, paramecia, genus, animalcules

A one-celled animal that moves by beating the cilia on the outside of the cell.

protist commonly found in pond water; slipper-shaped with coordinated parallel lines of rowing cilia

any member of the genus Paramecium

Keywords: critters, carnivore, creature, ecosystem, eats

This creature is more of a carnivore. Part of its behavior is that it eats other critters in the ecosystem.

Keywords: cilate, common, example

a common example of a cilate

Keywords: amoeba, important, single, related, closely

a single-celled organism that is closely related to the Amoeba, but also has some important differences