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Osmoregulation

Contractile Vacuoles

Contractile Vacuoles

A paramecium's contractile vacuole, here visualized using bright field light microscopy at 480x magnification, continuously pumps water out of the organism's body to keep it from bursting in a hypotonic medium.

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