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The contractile vacuole has several structures attached to it in most cells, such as membrane folds, tubules, water tracts and small vesicles. These structures have been termed the spongiome; the contractile vacuole together with the spongiome is sometimes called the "contractile vacuole complex" (CVC). The spongiome serves several functions in ...
A contractile vacuole is a specialized osmoregulatory organelle that is present in many free-living protists. [25] The contractile vacuole is part of the contractile vacuole complex which includes radial arms and a spongiome.
The food vacuoles may show as a brown or grey colour, but depends on the food eaten. Zoochlorellae, food reserves and waste granules, which are abundant in the cytoplasm, may create the impression that Vorticella is an opaque cell. [5] Vorticella has a pellicle with striae running parallel around the cell. This pellicle may be decorated with ...
Paramecium caudatum [1] is a species of unicellular protist in the phylum Ciliophora. [2] They can reach 0.33 mm in length and are covered with minute hair-like organelles called cilia. [3] The cilia are used in locomotion and feeding. [2] The species is very common, and widespread in marine, brackish and freshwater environments. [4] [5]
Like many other protists, species of Amoeba control osmotic pressures with the help of a membrane-bound organelle called the contractile vacuole. Amoeba proteus has one contractile vacuole which slowly fills with water from the cytoplasm (diastole), then, while fusing with the cell membrane, quickly contracts (systole), releasing water to the ...
A single contractile vacuole is positioned at the posterior end of the organism, attached to a collecting canal that extends towards the anterior end. When filled with fluid, the vacuole takes up a substantial portion of the posterior end. The distinction between the contractile vacuole and the rest of the cytoplasm is usually very clear. [6 ...
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Anything left in the food vacuole by the time it reaches the cytoproct is discharged by exocytosis. Most ciliates also have one or more prominent contractile vacuoles , which collect water and expel it from the cell to maintain osmotic pressure , or in some function to maintain ionic balance.