The Roomba of the Microworld
Hey there I present you the Roomba of the microworld, Bursaria truncatella. This is one of the biggest singlecelled organisms. They can be seen with the naked eye and some of these behemoths can be almost 2 millimeters long . They are like the vacuum cleaners, they sweep the other organisms into their extremely wide mouth and swallow them . Cell surface is cover with tiny hairlike structures called cilia, cilia used for locomotion and also their beating create a current that brings possible prey in
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