Question

An amoeba is a one-celled protist. Amoeba contain all the organelles of a typical eukaryotic animal cell. It is a heterotroph and moves through an aquatic environment using cytoplasmic streaming and pseudopods What would you expect to happen FIRST if an amoeba senses prey present in its environment?

Answer 1

The correct answer is the amoeba will deploy its pseudopods (cytoplasmic extentions) to capture the prey and phagocyte.

The amoeba most known and probably the most representative of the kind. Large (up to 500 microns), common in stagnant waters, extremely voracious as evidenced by multiple digestive vacuoles.

Amoebae are characterized by a deformable cell body emitting changes of shape, the pseudopods, which allow them to crawl on a support or to capture microscopic prey by phagocytosis.