PROTOZOA REMIX

CHORUS Here's the song for our project on, PROTOZOA It's about paramecium caudatum Hopefully you'll learn a lot of stuff about PROTOZOA They are really, really interesting. Verse 1 They're members of the phylum Ciliophora They have cilia that line the cell membrane The cell membrane is surrounded by protein layer called a pellicle CHEA! UGH! Water sweeps food into the mouth pore The food is digested in a food vacuole Then undigested food is expelled from the anal pore The macronucleus contains the DNA The micronucleus exchanges DNA in conjugation CHORUS Here's the song for our project on, PROTOZOA It's about paramecium caudatum Hopefully you'll learn a lot of stuff about PROTOZOA They are really, really interesting. Verse 2 \ilia live in aquatic and fresh water cribs Lots of them live in small ponds and slow moving streams With plants and decaying organic matter They reproduce asexually by binary fission This is when only the micronucleus divides by mitosis The macronucleus elongates until it splits in half Sometimes sexual reproduction occurs by conjugation Huh? What? Conjugation! CHORUS