Microbiology: An Evolving Science (Fourth Edition)
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Author: John W. Foster, Joan L. Slonczewski
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
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The habitat that favors flagellated amoeba.
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An amoeba is a single-celled eukaryotic organism that moves by the means of pseudopodia or “false feet�. They have no definite shape. The organelles are present in the cytoplasm of amoeba that is enclosed by a cell membrane. Flagellate refers to the characteristic feature of many prokaryotes and eukaryotes that describe their locomotion. A flagellate organism has one or more appendages called flagella.
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