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Dictionary » A » Amoebas Amoebas(Science: protozoa) genus of protozoa, but also an imprecise name given to several types of free living unicellular phagocytic organism. giant forms (e.g. Amoeba proteus) may be up to 2mm long and crawl over surfaces by protruding pseudopods (amoeboid movement). Amoebae exhibit great plasticity of form and conspicuous cytoplasmic streaming. ![]()
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Re: I have a question on:Amoebas and evolving...oh you answered it. I didn't catch the fact that they were unicellular. I just assumed that they were multi-. yeah. This makes me think about the experiment by scientists Miller and Urey. (about creating an "early earth atmosphere" and shooting little jolts of electricity through and watch...
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I have a question on:Amoebas and evolving...Currently it seems that choanoflagellates are the closest thing to the ancestors of multicellular animals. Amoebas, on the other hand, are unicellular, mobile heterothrophs and so in that sense they resemble choanoflagellants. However, genetic and molecular studies suggest that ...
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I have a question on:Amoebas and evolving...Ok my thinking is that it would make since that amoebas are what evolved to living animals considering that they are hetrotrophs(sp?), and they move(so to speak) to capture "prey" but Im being told that living animals evolved from Choanoflagellates.... ...
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