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Ameboid movement

Asa Arthur Schaeffer

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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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18 chapters

  1. 1AMEBOID MOVEMENT
  2. 2PREFACE
  3. 3CONTENTS
  4. 4CHAPTER I Introduction
  5. 5CHAPTER II Historical Sketch
  6. 6CHAPTER III The General Features of Endoplasmic Streaming
  7. 7CHAPTER IV The Transformation of Endoplasm into Ectoplasm
  8. 8CHAPTER V Pseudopods and the Nature of the Ectoplasm
  9. 9CHAPTER VI The Species Question
  10. 10CHAPTER VII Experiments on the Surface Layer of the Ameba
  11. 11CHAPTER VIII ON THE NATURE OF THE SURFACE LAYER
  12. 12CHAPTER IX The Surface Layer and Theories of Ameboid Movement
  13. 13CHAPTER X Streaming, Contractility and Ameboid Movement
  14. 14CHAPTER XI The Surface Layer as a Locomotor Organ
  15. 15CHAPTER XII The Wavy Path of the Ameba
  16. 16CHAPTER XIII The Wavy Path of the Ameba and the Spiral Paths of Ciliates and other Organisms
  17. 17CHAPTER XIV Conclusions
  18. 18BIBLIOGRAPHY
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