Slipper Animalcule

Function and Applications

Paramecium, enlarged approx. 1600 times, in SOMSO-Plast®. After Christian Groß, Head of Biology Department (retired). The model shows the cell of a protozoa: macro- and micronucleus, contractile vacuoles, cytostome with membranellae, myonemes and food vacuoles and the formation of the endo- and ectoplasm and the network of neuronemes. A detailed block shows the structure of the pellicle of the ectoplasm, and the position and order of the trichocysts and a range of cilia in typical order. Separates into 2 parts. On a stand with green base and explanatory note.