A single-celled protist reacts to threats in surprisingly complex ways
A new try of a dismissed 1906 experiment suggests a protist can, in fact, ‘decide’ what to do
Stentor roeseli, a single-celled organism known as a protist, uses its hairlike cilia to feed while attached to floating algae. New research suggests that it's capable of complex evasive behaviors when irritated.
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