NEET BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Amoebae are usually capable of producing pseudopodia, which are used as locomotor and food-acquiring organelles. These transitory body extensions depend for their function on the association of actin and myosin.

Detailed explanation-2: -Amoebas are identified by their ability to form temporary cytoplasmic extensions called pseudopodia, or false feet, by means of which they move about. This type of movement, called amoeboid movement, is considered to be the most primitive form of animal locomotion.

Detailed explanation-3: -Amoeboid movement occurs as an extension of the cytoplasm, called a pseudopod (“false foot”), flows outward, deforms the cell boundary, and is followed by the rest of the cell.

Detailed explanation-4: -The main function of pseudopodia is to help in locomotion and feeding. They also help in sensing targets which can then be engulfed, such a type of pseudopodia are called phagocytosis pseudopodia. Pseudopodia gives amoeboid movement to the cells which is a sliding or crawling-like form of locomotion.

Detailed explanation-5: -pseudopodium, also called pseudopod, temporary or semipermanent extension of the cytoplasm, used in locomotion and feeding by all sarcodine protozoans (i.e., those with pseudopodia; see sarcodine) and some flagellate protozoans.