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Single-celled organisms

Why?

Single-celled organisms such as bacteria, amoebas and yeast do everything life needs inside one cell.

A paramecium swims through pond water by beating thousands of tiny hairs, turning round when it bumps into a stone.

Press the button to follow a swimming paramecium and watch yeast raise bread dough.

Drag the picture to look around.

Yeast cells in warm bread dough eat sugar and give off bubbles of gas, making the dough rise.

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