Amoeba

BY: CINDY NGUYEN

An amoeba is quite a minuscule and unicellular organism. They are so small that you would need a microscope to detect most of the amoebas. Their function is to break down the bacteria, animal matter, and deteriorating plants into nutrients necessary for the growth of a plant. The cell usually can be found in deteriorating plant life, ponds, damp soils or places, and animals such as humans. Foods that the amoeba eats include additional protozoan, algae, round worms, bacteria and plant cells. The amoeba obtains food by stretching something called pseudopodia, to encompass themselves. The organisms will then be digested inside the food vacuoles. The structure of an amoeba includes a cytoplasm and nucleus. Did you know the name amoeba is derived from the Greek word amoibe, which means change? The amoebas are also very well known organisms for experimenting and observing by scientists, and are also addressed as a model organisms.

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