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Information and images of the Chaos chaos or Pelomyxa ... The Pelomyxa or Chaos chaos is a very large protozoan and belongs to the Phyllum Sarcodina.
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www.microscope-microscope.org/applications/pond-critter...
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Some species of importance in research and teaching ... An important axiom in cell biology is that different organisms solve similar problems in similar ways. As complex as you may believe yourself to be, you share the most basic processes of life with the simplest of living things. ... Chaos (Pelomyxa) carolinensis...
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www.ruf.rice.edu/~bioslabs/studies/invertebrates/invert...
www.ruf.rice.edu/~bioslabs/studies/invertebrates/invertebrates.html
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Chaos is a member of the phylum Sarcodina, consisting of ameoba-like organisms. The Sarcodina are hetertrophs, that is, for energy they rely on photosynthetic organisms either directly ... You may picture protozoa as too small to be seen without a microscope. ... To observe living Chaos you will need to prepare a vaseline mount.
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www.ruf.rice.edu/~bioslabs/studies/invertebrates/chaos....
www.ruf.rice.edu/~bioslabs/studies/invertebrates/chaos.html
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Pelomyxa (Pelomyxa) in Encyclopedia of Life ... This currently monotypic genus has been the generic vehicle for 25 nominal species, of which, 18 have been synonymised with Pelomyxa palustris by Whatley and Chapman-Andresen, 5 have been transferred to other genera and 2 are nomina nuda.
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Pelomyxa palustris Greef (Pelomyxa palustris) in Encyclopedia of Life ... Pelomyxa palustris is usually reported as a large multinucleate amoeboid pelobiont, 100-5000 microns long, with small non-motile flagella, endosymbiotic bacteria, refringent cytoplasmic granules (sand and food particles);
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Whatley, 1976). Some confusion possibly still results from the fact that the name "Pelomyxa" was used to describe quite a different amoeba Chaos. Pelomyxa is a huge club-shaped amoeba often green as a result of it playing host to algae.
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www.bms.ed.ac.uk/research/others/smaciver/peloxyma.htm
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blunt rounded pseudopodia, formed by eruption (see See also: ... peculiar vesicles (glycogen?), and full of a symbiotic bacterium . It inhabits the See also: ... End of Article: PELOMYXA...
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encyclopedia.jrank.org/PAS_PER/PELOMYXA.html
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Kingdom Protista; Phylum Rhizopoda; Pelomyxa cell with multiple nuclei...
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www.esu.edu/~milewski/intro_biol_two/lab_8_protista/pel...
www.esu.edu/~milewski/intro_biol_two/lab_8_protista/pelomyxa.html
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Pelomyxa is a genus within Pelobionta containing several species of amoebae (amebas). Pelomyxa are classified as "basal eukaryotes", because they lack the mitochondria, endoplasmic reticula, and Golgi Complexes common to the higher eukaryotes like animals, plants, and fungi.
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