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What is the difference between Euglena and Paramecium?

What is the difference between Euglena and Paramecium?

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• Euglena is a flagellate while Paramecium is a ciliate.

• Paramecium shows animal characteristics, whereas Euglena shows both animal and plant characteristics.

Euglena has chloroplasts but not Paramecium does.

• Paramecium is a heterotroph while Euglena is both a heterotroph and an autotroph.

Euglena can survive long droughts without water or light, but Paramecium cannot.

Pellicle in Euglena enables them the flexibility, but there is no pellicle in Paramecium.

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