#amoeba proteus

[nonotnow-photography]

🦠Amoeba proteus is a large species of amoeba closely related to another genus of giant amoebae, Chaos. As such, the species is sometimes given the alternative scientific name Chaos diffluens

©️nonotnow photography.

🔬~microscope: biolam r11~

[microbes-in-hats]

Amoeba proteus / Chaos diffluens

Could not accurately source.

[my-name-is-dahlia]

Amoeba proteus

unicellular protist

locomotion: “cell crawling” with pseudopodia (“fake feet”); cytoplasm is pumped into extensions, allowing the cell to stretch forward

food vacuoles contain engulfed food; contractile vacuoles expel excess water

[iaintnosidekick]

[adelicateculturecell]

Journey to the Microcosmos! Amoebas: Occasional Brain-Eaters

[adelicateculturecell]

Amoeba proteus 100x

Journey to the Microcosmos: Amoebas: Occasional Brain-Eaters

[foodforbrains]

Amoeba Proteus

Amoeba Proteus a.k.a. Amiba

Organismo unicelular que recibio su nombre de Proteo, dios griego capaz de cambiar de forma a voluntad. Sus prolongaciones...seudopódos le dan la capacidad para movrse y capturar sus alimentos (fagocitosis), su reproducción es asexual por fisión binaria.

Descubierta por Johann Rösel von Rosenhof.

[exploratorium]

Amoeba Proteus, Vitachrome stained from the Exploratorium's Microscope Imaging Station.

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