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how do amoebas move?
the cell membrane is pushed out and the cytoplasm fills in the new space. the added weight couses it to tip down in a rolling motion , it continues this process in order to move
ameobas use what process to eat?
phagocytosis
in a paramecium what does the contractile vacuoles do/
control the amount of water in the cell
What disease does trypanosoma cause?
sleeping sickness
how is it transmitted?
the bite of the tsetse fly
list two majior symptoms
1) coma
2) death
What disease does plasmodium cause?
malaria
how is it transmitted?
anopheles mosquitoes
list two majior symptoms
1) high fever
2) vomiting
What is special about dinoflagellates which bioluminesce?
they creat light when they are startled of distressed
is euglena autotrophic of heterotrophic
both
what does the latein word “foramen” mean?
little hole