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Amoeba

An amoeba or ameba (/ə.ˈmiː.bə/; pl.: amoebas or amebas (less commonly, amoebae or amebae /ə.ˈmiː.bi/)), often called an amoeboid, is a type of cell or unicellular organism with the ability to alter its shape, primarily by extending and retracting pseudopods. Amoebae do not form a single taxonomic group; instead, they are found in every major lineage of…

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Amoeboid cells in other organisms

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Amoeba

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Triples156
Avg. degree1.99
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Amoeba

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related to Current classification · 44
Amoeba → Acrasida, Actinophryida, Actinopoda, Adl, Amoebozoa, Amoebozoa Lühe, Amorphea, Blanton, Breviatea Cavalier-Smith, Cavalier-Smith, Centroplasthelida Febvre-Chevalier, CRuMs, Currently, Diphylleida, Euglenozoa, Euglyphida, Febvre, Filosea, For, Foraminifera
related to External links · 21
Amoeba → Amoebae, Archived, Clauß, December, Edinburgh, Feed Using Pseudopodia, Gallery, Life, Maciver Lab, Microworld, Molecular Expressions Digital Video, Penard Labs, Pond Life, Protists Which Move, Protozoa, The Amoebae, Tree, University, Visual, Völcker
related to Conceptual origins · 15
Amoeba → Amiba, August Johann Rösel, Bory, Bory's, Der Kleine Proteus, Ehrenberg, French, Greek, In, Little Proteus, Proteus, Rosenhof, Rösel's, Saint-Vincent, The
related to Sexual reproduction · 15
Amoeba → Acanthamoeba, Amoebozoa, Dmc1, Mlh, Mnd1, Mre11, Msh, Orthologs, Rad50, Rad51, Rad52, Recent, Spo11, These, This
related to Transitional period · 14
Amoeba → Amoebozoa, As, Cercozoa, Eosarcodina, In, Mycetozoa, Neosarcodina, Reticulosa, Rhizopoda, Sarcodina, Shortly, The, Thomas Cavalier-Smith, With
related to Amoeboid dispersal stages · 11
Amoeba → Acrasida, Amoeboid, Ascetosporea, Both, Dictyosteliida, Mesomycetozoea, Myxogastria, Myxozoa, Other, The, Zygnematophyceae
related to Pseudopods and movement · 11
Amoeba → Amoebae, Amoebozoan, Cercozoan, Euglypha, Foraminifera, Free-living, Gromia, Heliozoa, Radiolaria, Some, The
related to Traditional classification · 10
Amoeba → Actinopoda, Amoebae, During, For, Heliozoa, Radiolaria, Rhizopoda, Sarcodina, Sarcodina Schmarda, The Rhizopods
related to Size range · 6
Amoeba → At, Chaos, Massisteria, Most, Pelomyxa, The
related to Pathogenic amoebae · 5
Amoeba → Acanthamoeba, Balamuthia, Entamoeba, Naegleria, Some

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amoebae amoeboid group organisms pseudopods cell cells sarcodina amoebozoa pseudopodia meiosis rhizaria lobose filose now found also included form known

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Amoebarelated to Amoeboid dispersal stagesAmoeboid0.60section
Amoebarelated to Amoeboid dispersal stagesBoth0.60section
Amoebarelated to Amoeboid dispersal stagesMyxogastria0.60section
Amoebarelated to Amoeboid dispersal stagesAcrasida0.60section
Amoebarelated to Amoeboid dispersal stagesDictyosteliida0.60section
Amoebarelated to Amoeboid dispersal stagesThe0.60section
Amoebarelated to Amoeboid dispersal stagesOther0.60section
Amoebarelated to Amoeboid dispersal stagesZygnematophyceae0.60section
Amoebarelated to Amoeboid dispersal stagesMesomycetozoea0.60section
Amoebarelated to Amoeboid dispersal stagesMyxozoa0.60section
Amoebarelated to Amoeboid dispersal stagesAscetosporea0.60section
Amoebarelated to Conceptual originsThe0.60section

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