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Tasting hairs on the legs of a roach can not only help it determine a food source, but help it avoid pesticides as well. Glycocides -- poison baits mixed with glucose -- were traditionally used to dose the sweet-loving cockroach with lethal toxins.
exists and is an alternate of . Amoebas use pseudopods (false feet in Latin) to move around. They strech out one part of themsleves then pull the rest of it toward the part. The streched part looks like a limb, resulting in false feet.. Locomotion in amoeba is due to the formantion of pseudopodia formation.