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Nature, Gardens & Animals
Ameboid movement
Asa Arthur Schaeffer
190 pages~3 hr 47 min read18 chapters$4.99
How does a creature with no legs move? Asa Schaeffer investigates the crawling of the amoeba, tracing the streaming endoplasm and the reaching pseudopods that carry it forward. A focused study of one of biology's most basic mysteries. Watch life move at its simplest and strangest.
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Inside this book
18 chapters
- 1AMEBOID MOVEMENT
- 2PREFACE
- 3CONTENTS
- 4CHAPTER I Introduction
- 5CHAPTER II Historical Sketch
- 6CHAPTER III The General Features of Endoplasmic Streaming
- 7CHAPTER IV The Transformation of Endoplasm into Ectoplasm
- 8CHAPTER V Pseudopods and the Nature of the Ectoplasm
- 9CHAPTER VI The Species Question
- 10CHAPTER VII Experiments on the Surface Layer of the Ameba
- 11CHAPTER VIII ON THE NATURE OF THE SURFACE LAYER
- 12CHAPTER IX The Surface Layer and Theories of Ameboid Movement
- 13CHAPTER X Streaming, Contractility and Ameboid Movement
- 14CHAPTER XI The Surface Layer as a Locomotor Organ
- 15CHAPTER XII The Wavy Path of the Ameba
- 16CHAPTER XIII The Wavy Path of the Ameba and the Spiral Paths of Ciliates and other Organisms
- 17CHAPTER XIV Conclusions
- 18BIBLIOGRAPHY
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