How does the amoeba get his food?
This small miracle is one of the protozoa animals. He manages to carry on all the processes of life with a single ce11; and. Even if he is a giant among amoebas, the miniature creature is barely big enough for our eyes to see. He looks like a shapeless white blob, and the amazing processes which go in his little body must be seen under a microscope. The amoeba and his assorted relatives teem in our creeks and fresh water streams. The microscope shays him to be a clear and shapeless blob of jelly sprinkled throughout with granules and miniature droplets. Tie blob of jelly is protoplasm, and the entire surface is sheathed in the finest of delicate cell membranes. In real life, the shapeless amoeba is forever on the move, seeking for food. A finger of 3elly called a pseudopod streams out from the shapeless blob, and part of the soft ce11 follows along behind it. Two or more pseudopods poke out in different directions, and the amoeba changes its shape. As this happens, the tiny blob of jel
