Amøbe

En amøbe er en encellet organisme, der kan danne pseudopodier (sv), midlertidige udvækster der bruges til bevægelse eller til at omslutte føde.[1&#

Amøbe

En amøbe er en encellet organisme, der kan danne pseudopodier (sv), midlertidige udvækster der bruges til bevægelse eller til at omslutte føde.[1] Amøber udgør ikke en enkelt taksonomisk gruppe, men en stor del af dem er protister i gruppen Amoebozoa.

Nogle amøber lever frit i vand, fx Amoeba proteus (en) der er en populær modelorganisme på grund af sin, for amøber, betragtelige størrelse. Andre amøber er parasitter, fx tarmparasitten Entamoeba histolytica der hos mennesker kan forårsage dysenteri.

En amøbe er indehaver af en biologisk rekord: Det største genom er bestemt for Polychaos dubium (en) med 670 milliarder basepar. Til sammenligning har det humane genom kun 3,2 milliarder basepar.[kilde mangler]

I 2008 blev den 2,5 cm store kugleformede amøbe Gromia sphaerica (de) fundet ved Bahamas nær Little San Salvador Island (en). Den bevæger sig ved at rulle hen over havbunden[2].

Se også

Kilder/referencer

  1. ^ Microworld. https://arcella.nl/introduction/. Hentet 2026-07-06.
  2. ^ Duke University (2008, December 4). Rolling 'Sea Grape' Rocks The Fossil Record. ScienceDaily. Retrieved December 7, 2008 Citat: "...The grape-like animal, tentatively named the Bahamian Gromia, is actually a single-celled organism, fully one inch long...But what makes it really fantastic is that it moves -- very slowly -- by rolling itself along the ocean floor...Matz worked out the genetics of the new creature and found it's a giant amoeba closely related to similar blobs found in the Gulf of Oman, near Antarctica, off Guam, and in the Mediterranean. None of them are known to move..."

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