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myxamoeba
swarm cell of slime fungi
Source: Noland, George B. 1983. General Biology, 11th Edition. St. Louis, MO. C. V. Mosby ...
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amoeba: single-celled organisms with no distinct shape; members of the phylum Sarcodina.
anabolism: the process of synthesizing large molecules by joining smaller molecules together.
anaerobic: organisms that thrive in an oxygen-free environment.
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Amoeba makes us of a contractile vacuole to collect excretory waste, such as ammonia, from the intracellular fluid by both diffusion and active transport.
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Amoeba and Pelomyxa move by extensions of their cytoplasm known as pseudopodia. Pseudopodia are used by many cells, and are not fixed structures like flagella but rather are associated with actin near the moving edge of the cytoplasm.
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Amoeba genus name for one-celled organisms which have pseudopodia and belong to Kingdom Protista; Division Rhizopoda
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Entamoeba histolytica. Causes amebic dysentery, the third most common parasitic disease of humans (after malaria and schistosomiasis).
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myxamoeba - in Dictyostelium discoideum, the solitary haploid cell of the vegetative life cycle that lives on bacteria and reproduces by binary fission until the food supply is exhausted.
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Not just bacteria and viruses, but amoeba and all sorts of unusual things that are not supposed to get in our body and cause disease. So along comes the AIDS virus. Have we faced a virus like that?
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For simple unicellular organisms such as the Amoeba, one cell division reproduces an entire organism. On a larger scale, cell division can create progeny from multicellular organisms, such as plants that grow from cuttings.
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Eukaryotes include protists (single celled organisms like amoebas and diatoms and a few multicellular forms such as kelp), fungi (including mushrooms and yeast), plants and animals.
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amoeboid movement A form of movement similar to that found in amoebae. Fluid endoplasm (plasmasol) flows forward inside the cell and changes state to viscous ectoplasm (plasmagel) on reaching the tip of a pseudopodium.
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Junk DNA has helped scientists come to terms with one of the human genome's most perplexing paradoxes-that our genome is 200 times larger than that of baker's yeast but 200 times smaller than that of amoeba! ...
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Pseudopodia are temporary extensions of the plasma membrane used for movement or to engulf particles. Pseudopodia can be seen in the Amoeba below.
Cell Wall
The cell wall functions to support and protect the cell.
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