Blepharisma protozoan. Differential interference contrast micrograph of a Blepharisma americana protozoan, showing food vacuoles (circles) containing

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Blepharisma protozoan. Differential interference contrast micrograph of a Blepharisma americana protozoan, showing food vacuoles (circles) containing red-stained yeast (red), which it was fed to show the process by which it ingests its food. These ciliate protozoa move by beating their cilia, hair-like extensions that cover their bodies. Magnification: x350 when printed at 10 centimetres wide.

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Size: 3456px × 2592px
Photo credit: © GERD GUENTHER/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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Keywords: anchored, animal, aquatic, background, biological, biology, blue, cell, celled, cilia, ciliate, ciliated, colony, contrast, dic, differential, epistylis, fauna, freshwater, interference, invertebrate, invertebrates, light, micrograph, microorganism, nature, protozoa, protozoan, single, single-cell, single-celled, stalk, stalks, unicellular, zoological, zoology