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Pseudopods or pseudopodia are temporary projections of eukaryotic cells. Cells having this faculty are generally referred to as amoeboids. Pseudopodia extend and contract by the reversible assembly of actin subunits into microfilaments. Filaments near the end interact with myosin which causes contraction....
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Pseudopods or pseudopodia are temporary projections of eukaryotic cells. Cells having this faculty are generally referred to as amoeboids. Pseudopodia extend and contract by the reversible assembly of actin subunits into microfilaments. Filaments near the end interact with myosin which causes contraction. The pseudopodium extends itself until the actin reassembles itself into a network. This is how amoebas move, as well as some cells found in animals, such as white blood cells. read less
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Pseudo means false Poda means foot So false feet .. It is exceptional to any organism which has amoeboid locomotion. It is general feature of Sarcodine Protozoa. For example having members Amoeba and Entamoeba. Also there on trophozoite stage of malarial parasite, Plasmodium. These are extensions...
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Pseudo means false Poda means foot So false feet .. It is exceptional to any organism which has amoeboid locomotion. It is general feature of Sarcodine Protozoa. For example having members Amoeba and Entamoeba. Also there on trophozoite stage of malarial parasite, Plasmodium. These are extensions of plasma membrane, read less
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Pseudopods or pseudopodia are temporary projections of eukaryotic cells. Cells having this faculty are generally referred to as amoeboids. Pseudopodia extend and contract by the reversible assembly of actin subunits into microfilaments. Filaments near the cell's end interact with myosin which causes...
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Pseudopods or pseudopodia are temporary projections of eukaryotic cells. Cells having this faculty are generally referred to as amoeboids. Pseudopodia extend and contract by the reversible assembly of actin subunits into microfilaments. Filaments near the cell's end interact with myosin which causes contraction. The pseudopodium extends itself until the actin reassembles itself into a network. This is how amoebas move, as well as some cells found in animals, such as white blood cells. read less
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Pseudo means false,Poda means foot .Pseudopodia is the term for false feet of amoeba. It is created when the amoeba needs to move by contracting or extending the cytoplasm in the desired direction by the process of solation. once the finger like projection is complete it is affirmed by gelation and the...
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Pseudo means false,Poda means foot .Pseudopodia is the term for false feet of amoeba. It is created when the amoeba needs to move by contracting or extending the cytoplasm in the desired direction by the process of solation. once the finger like projection is complete it is affirmed by gelation and the entire cytoplasm moves towards it. by this process it can move and even engulf food read less
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False feet, animals that have false feel to walk like amoeba
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Pseudopods are temporary cytoplasmic projections of the cell membrane in certain unicellular protists such as amoeba. Pseudopods, also called pseudopodia (singular: pseudopodium), literally means false foot. That is because they are associated with locomotion.
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Temporary cytoplasmic projection of the cell membrane of certain unicellular protists, and is used in locomotion and/or in feeding by engulfing food
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