Introduction

Question 1

What are amoeba?

Answer 1

It is a microscopic organism that lives at the bottom of shallow freshwater ponds and streams. (they can be found in salt water too)

Question 2

Describe the size of amoeba

Answer 2

Each amoeba consists of just a single cell about 0.1 mm in diameter

Question 3

How do amoeba get their food? Heterotrophic or autotrophic, etc..

Answer 3

It is heterotrophic and is omnivorous, i.e. it eats other single-celled protists, plants and animals

Question 4

What is important to remember about amoeba?

Answer 4

They can carry out all the life processes of larger organisms, even though it is only a single cell