A few protists live as colonies that behave in some ways as a group of free-living cells and in other ways as a multicellular organism. Protists use various methods for transportation. (a) Paramecium ...A few protists live as colonies that behave in some ways as a group of free-living cells and in other ways as a multicellular organism. Protists use various methods for transportation. (a) Paramecium waves hair-like appendages called cilia to propel itself. (b) Amoeba uses lobe-like pseudopodia to anchor itself to a solid surface and pull itself forward. (c) Euglena uses a whip-like tail called a flagellum to propel itself.
