Image: Stentors

Photo Credit: Dr. Igor Siwanowicz

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Stentors are a group of single-celled protozoan that lives in freshwater. They are filter-feeders and heterotrophic ciliates, and are usually shaped like a horn. They can reach two millimeters in length hence, they are among the largest known unicellular organisms that exist.

Source:

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-03839-z

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cytochrome_c

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