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Excretory Products and their Elimination
Osmoregulation in Protozoans
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- Contractile vacuole
- Contractile vacuole in hypertonic medium
All Questions
2004 AIPMT 1 question
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When a fresh water protozoan possessing a contractile vacuole, is placed in a glass containing marine water, the vacuole will-A freshwater protozoan such as Amoeba or Paramecium lives in a hypotonic medium. Water continuously enters its body by osmosis.
The contractile vacuole collects this excess water and pumps it out at intervals (osmoregulation).
Marine water is hypertonic (or nearly isotonic) to the protoplasm. In it, water no longer enters the cell; instead the cell tends to lose water.
With no excess water to remove, the contractile vacuole is no longer needed. It stops functioning and disappears (marine protozoans generally lack contractile vacuoles).
So the vacuole will disappear.
2002 AIPMT 1 question
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In protozoa like Amoeba and Paramecium, an organ is found for osmoregulation which is : -Freshwater protozoans such as Amoeba and Paramecium live in a hypotonic medium, so water keeps entering their cells by osmosis.
The contractile vacuole collects the excess water from the cytoplasm and discharges it to the outside at intervals, so the cell does not swell and burst. This is osmoregulation.
Mitochondria produce energy, the nucleus controls cell activities, and food vacuoles digest food.
So the organelle for osmoregulation is the contractile vacuole.
