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(delinquent) Sunday Protist -- Chaos

By Psi Wavefunction on Wednesday, November 05, 2008
A genus that sums up my life perfectly:

Chaos (Amoebozoa)

source

We were looking at amoebae today. This one is quite huge -- a couple milimetres across, multinucleate and slow as an...amoeba.


Good site with background info on amoebae

(Chaos is the reason I'm falling behind on this Sunday protist thing -- midterms, research, time management issues, general loss of sanity, etc...)

And no, next entry will not be Phallus
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3 comments:

  1. PatronimusNovember 7, 2008 at 6:15:00 PM PST

    How do you know where is it looking at?

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  2. Psi WavefunctionNovember 16, 2008 at 4:26:00 PM PST

    Huh? It doesn't really have...eyes...or anything... <_<

    I think it just senses chemical gradients and responds to them. I don't know much about how this thing lives though.

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  3. PatronimusNovember 16, 2008 at 5:16:00 PM PST

    LURK MOAR.

    That's what an amoeba would tell you.

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