Paramecium

[mer3d1]

This is Sweet!! Where did you get your sample of Paramecium?

[Sarahmint]

Do we kill these every time we boil water?

[Bigrusssthefuss]

I always see this shit run across my eyes!

[masterkiller460]

@Bigrusssthefuss i hope for you its no Paramecium

[AlphaMaleRyan]

@2914451 you could find some in most river and lake water

[TheGasproductions]

yeah we study these at school and they move really wierdly

[2914451]

can u tell me where can i get paramecium and amoeba....or any other unicellular organism......i am a very young scientist,,,,yesturday i bought my light microscope.....which cannot be connected to computer

[slovencek1234]

if I'm not mistaken, if you ' re really zoomed in Euglena has a very long thin "tail". so i hope i helped, oh and Paramecium has little tiny "hairs" over ist whole "body"

[ckprank123]

How do i differentiate which is Euglena and which is paramecium?cos,they kinda look the same,,,

[orideneia]

ckprank123: well, if i remember well, i think euglena should have a tiny green speck somewhere... but i have seen only parameciums under the microscope, i havent seen an euglena "in real life" yet, so im afraid i didnt help you much:)

all: AWESOME VIDEO!!! NATURE ROCKS! :)

[Darkness3827]

@ckprank123 Euglena have chloroplast, so they look more green compared to the paramecium, which does not have chloroplast

[vanessifyification]

@ckprank123 euglena is green

[NohiverStoiber]

Impresionante

[DamienPictures]

looks like a fish

[Fercorio]

how did u made it slow?

[vide0gameBUFF]

he put something like strands of cotton in it

[cheese15624]

lol, i didnt get to see them moving yet. but i think i will soon. :D

[RyanatorML2000]

What's the magnification? It's very good quality.

[shadowfreak57]

I did this in school like a month or two ago! And we also watched Amoebas, Parameciums, Spiragyro [or Spirogyra, not sure...], Eugelna and I think that's it. Oh! When we viewed the Paramecium slide, some of us saw another Protist that feeds on Parameciums. It was really cool and stuff :-]

[shortclayman]

i found one of those in creek water. i saw the cilias!

[tharian1994]

great sector

[blabbermouth02]

I think I see the cilia.

[sakatochan20]

This is really going to help me with my Biology paper.

[ceasormayhem101]

@sakatochan20 i hear that

[MistressWe]

at school we have been studying parameciums for months: in a jar we put some water and hay, after a week there were so many unicellular animals!!! I love studying biology and this tiny creature; they live in their own (cruel xD)world and watching them it's so fun!

[bexter97]

@MistressWe

There's no such thing as a unicellular animal, and qualifying characteristic to be classified into the kingdom animalia is to be MULTIcellular not unicellular. I think you must've meant unicellular organisms

[Hylianpiratesrule]

Yeah, Paramecia!! My faves! One of the characters in my manga wants to be one when he grows up!! (...?) XD

They are REEEEAAAALLLY funny when you watch them in fiber. They go all freak out-ish and hyper, lol!

[SaraBareillesRocks]

In science, we got stream water samples and got micro organism and saw it from the um, the thing they use on this video and this sounds nerdy, but it was sorta cool (^_^;;)

[chelseaj101]

can you guys help me count how many times it contracts?

[IKeiichiroI]

Hydra please =D i love hydra , amoeba,euglena and of coz...PARAMECIUM !

[goaliegirlinnet]

these are my favoritist protists! i made them look really good under the microscope! i loooove them and they are really, really fast! very cool! yay paramecii!

[keto6789]

If these things don't have a brain, how do they know how to move, eat, etc?

[kaleb8000]

They have a nucleus in the middle which is pretty much a brain but isnt an thats all i know you could probably look it up on another site or something

[kdb955]

all just chemical reactions. if the cilia are touched by molecules of something they consider food they stop moving so the cilia on the other side push it toward the good smell. in humans your skin tans in response to light, it dosnt need to ask the brain.

[SeanneryConnery]

In a unicellular organism, everything is basically a chemical reaction, they touch something, the membrane "tastes" it with glycoprotiens(or something) on its surface and may eat it if the nucleus likes the signal. Its crazy complicated but the general idea is simple: its all chemical reactions.

[drsheikhjunior]

The Paramecium is a unicellular organism.The nucleus is its "brain".The paramecium actually moves backwards instead of forwards.

[twistedgamer23]

i just like protozoa its cool

[Chidorigan8]

me thinks its moving by cilia? i think.

[DudDoodoo]

Parameciums always move using cillia.

[xLostInThisWorldx]

bless it! it's so cute!

[student5669]

lol

[Abraveliltoaster]

lmao, that was funny

[xmasteralexx]

how do these move/eat/breath/etc if they are only one cell?

[DudDoodoo]

To my knowlage it doesn't need to breathe, but it has organelles that are basically organs that different things, and it moves using hairs on it's body. If you look closely you can see them moving.

[monkeyboy2264]

it has an oral groove with cillia to take in food

[Majitsu]

ummm no.. they have organelles, they are eukaryotes

[BNSF5608]

Pfft, it looked scared. LOL These are just single-celled Prokaryotes LOL

[Lolin]

actually maybe you should have used google before embarrassing yourself because a paramecium is a eukaryote from the Domain Eukaryota and in the kingdom Protista.

[untabertanduk]

Actually you need to double check. Paramecium is a protozoa from the kingdom Protista.

[bearmack69]

and kingdom Protista no longer exists because all the organisms in that kingdom are all eukaryotes and THAT'S IT.

teacher told me and it says in our text books but internet isn't really up to date on news in the biology world.

[bearmack69]

"defined by exclusion: its memebers are neither animals, plants, fungi, nor prokaryotes." - L. Margulis

crazy eh?

[leeshi118]

Absolutely love the flagella!

[brea87]

This is great, luckily it wasn't moving too fast so you could see it. when I look at these under a microscope, they are moving so fast!

[xtina4sarah]

You can use a product to make them go slower. I did that today and it was very easy to follow them (they were a bit more active than in this video).

[crayonstud]

HAHA. Looks like the noise frightened it :-D

[Neraboo123]

poor thing, it looked scared