pseudopodium
temporary protrusion of protoplasm from a cell, especially in certain protozoans, such as amoebae, that serves various purposes (plural, pseudopodia) ...
Pseudopods or pseudopodia (false feet) are temporary projections of eukaryotic cells. Cells having this faculty are generally referred to as amoeboids.
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Pseudopodia are temporary extensions of the plasma membrane used for movement or to engulf particles. Pseudopodia can be seen in the Amoeba below.
Cell Wall
The cell wall functions to support and protect the cell.
pseudopodia -- Fingerlike extensions from an amoeboid cell; literally "false feet".
repeat sequences -- The length of a nucleotide sequence that is repeated in a tandem cluster.
pseudopodia Temporary cytoplasmic extensions from a cell that enables it to move (sing.: pseudopodium). PICTURE ...
pseudopodia Temporary cytoplasmic extensions of amoebas that are used in feeding and locomotion.
pseudopodium A temporary cytoplasmic protrusion extended out from a protozoan or ameboid cell, and serving for locomotion or for taking up food.
In locomotion the corpuscle pushes out a process of its substance"a pseudopodium, as it is called"and then shifts the rest of the body into it.
For example, the organisms using cilia to propel themselves were all placed in the Phylum Ciliata; those using pseudopodia were all in the Phylum Sarcodina.
In many school science labs, children observe amoebas under the microscope and watch the single-celled organisms eat by stretching out pseudopodia and encircling any food particles they find in their paths.
Left: A neutrophil extends a pseudopod toward two pneumococci.
Center: these bacteria have been engulfed (arrows), and the neutrophil is beginning to engulf four more pneumococci at the upper right.
Right: Two pneumococci have escaped.
Microfilaments are most concentrated just beneath the cell membrane, and are responsible for resisting tension and maintaining cellular shape, forming cytoplasmatic protuberances (like pseudopodia and microvilli- although these by different ...
Phagocytes form pseudopodia around the particle
This positions the particle into a phagocytic vacuole (also called phagosome)
Lysosome fuses with the phagosome
Intracellular killing by digestive enzymes from the lysosome ...
[Gk. amoibe, change]
Moving or feeding by means of pseudopodia (temporary cytoplasmic protrusions from the cell body).
AMP
Abbreviation of adenosine monophosphate.
Amoeba genus name for one-celled organisms which have pseudopodia and belong to Kingdom Protista; Division Rhizopoda
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They reach out with one part of the cell, a structure called a pseudopod. They don't really have a shape because they are constantly on the move, hunting down food and eating by a process called phagocytosis.
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