The ciliates: single-celled protists covered in short, hair-like cilia used for both movement and feeding, and unusual among eukaryotes for carrying two distinct kinds of nucleus in the same cell. Ciliophora includes Paramecium, one of the most extensively studied single-celled organisms in biology.
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