Pond Life Digital Movie Gallery Amoeba (Protozoa) Movies Amoebas
are primitive, unicellular animals known by their flowing, free-
form movements and their prey capture techniques. Most members
of the order Amoebida in the phylum Sarcodina are free-living,
but some are endoparasites of plants and animals, and are well
known disease vectors of ailments such as amoebic dysentery in
humans. Amoeba Video #1 - Cytoplasm of an amoeba is seen flowing
into the advancing pseudopods as they extend during movement;
under oblique illumination with a playing time of 14 seconds.
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Amoeba Video #2 - An amoeba slowly moves around the viewfield by
alternately extending and retracting a pair of very long
pseudopodia; under oblique illumination with a playing time of
45 seconds. Choose a playback format that matches your
connection speed: Within the order, there are the typical naked
amoebas plus several shelled species. In either type, the
amoeboids locomote by using the