- This occurs during amoeboid feeding. It stretches out around the prey and traps it in a sticky mesh.
- The cytoplasm causes the lobe to grow, when it streams into it, giving an effect of it oozing. It does not have a fixed shape, yet it is formed by microtubule and filament structures.
- It is parasitic.
- It lives in freshwater and saltwater, in soil, and in moist body parts of animals.
- It is an animal-like protist.
- It can contain either one or more nuclei.
- It reproduces asexually by binary fission.
- It is unicellular.
- There is no negative effect on humans, for it only helps the ameba move and receives food.
- It is heterophobic.
- It can be colonial, for it just varies.
- It has symbiotic relationships with amoebas.
Examples
Lobopodia
Filopodia
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