Question

Two mlcroorganisms are floating on wateron eother side of an amoeba . Can it have both the microorganisms at a time by making two pairs of psrudopodia on either side of it?

Answer 1

Amoebae use pseudopodia (meaning “false feet”) to move. This is basically the same way phagocytes (a type of white blood cell) engulf an invading microorganism when we fight an illness. In the case of an amoeba moving, it's cytoplasm flows forward to form a pseudopodium, then it evens back out. In order to eat, it will form two pseudopodia and wrap those around to meet each other, enclosing its food, then the cytoplasm evens out again.