Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Amoebas, Euglenas. Radiolarians, Foraminifera, Et Alii
    Amoebas, Euglenas. Radiolarians, Foraminifera, Et Alii
    Amoebas, Euglenas. Radiolarians, Foraminifera, Et Alii
    Ebook70 pages47 minutes

    Amoebas, Euglenas. Radiolarians, Foraminifera, Et Alii

    By Daniel Zimmermann

    ()

    Read preview

    About this ebook

    The following are treated in this e-book: amoebas, Paramecium caudatum, Euglena gracilis, Clamydomonas reinhardtii, Plasmodium malariae, radiolarians, foranminifera, bryophytes, heliozoans, bacterial viruses, how termites eat wood, Oomycetes, Chytridiomycetes, Zygomycetes, Ascomycetes, Basidiomycetes, anhydrobiosis, imperfect fungi. The author believes that God created these creatures, and this occasionally becomes apparent in these articles.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLulu.com
    Release dateApr 22, 2018
    ISBN9781387761500
    Amoebas, Euglenas. Radiolarians, Foraminifera, Et Alii

    Read more from Daniel Zimmermann

    Related to Amoebas, Euglenas. Radiolarians, Foraminifera, Et Alii

    Related ebooks

    Science & Mathematics For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      Lifelong Virus Actually Strengthens Older Immune Systems

      Jul 8, 2018

      A virus called cytomegalovirus, or CMV, may strengthen, rather than harm, the immune system in old age, according to new research with mice. Our immune system is at its peak when we’re young, but after a certain age, it declines and it becomes more d

      2 min read

    • Article

      The Immortality Hype: Despite the hyperbole, private funding is changing the science of aging for the better.

      May 26, 2016

      It’d be easy to miss the unobtrusive brown door to Joon Yun’s second floor office, tucked away next to a dry cleaners and a hair salon in downtown Palo Alto, California. But the address itself speaks loud enough. Four-hundred-seventy University Avenu

      17 min read

    • Article

      The Plantlife Aquatic

      Jun 1, 2021

      The Plantlife Aquatic
      3 min read

    • Article

      Soil Biology Testing

      Dec 15, 2019

      Soil Biology Testing
      3 min read

    • Article

      The Genome in Turmoil: Hope your week went well. It might have changed your genetics.

      Jun 6, 2013

      When President Obama delivered a speech at MIT in 2009, he used a common science metaphor: “We have always been about innovation,” he said. “We have always been about discovery. That’s in our DNA.” Deoxyribonucleic acid, the chemical into which our g

      6 min read

    • Article

      Who Wants To Live Forever?

      Mar 18, 2021

      Who Wants To Live Forever?
      2 min read

    • Article

      Best Smartphones For Macro

      Apr 8, 2023

      Best Smartphones For Macro
      7 min read

    • Article

      Oceans Full Of Plants

      Apr 1, 2021

      Oceans Full Of Plants
      4 min read

    • Article

      Mini But Mighty: How Microbes Make The World

      Nov 15, 2019

      A pair of studies published this week expand our understanding of the ocean’s tiniest organisms, underscoring the vital role of the mighty microbe.

      6 min read

    • Article

      The Unique Merger That Made You (and Ewe, and Yew): All sophisticated life on the planet Earth may owe its existence to one freakish event.

      Feb 6, 2014

      At first glance, a tree could not be more different from the caterpillars that eat its leaves, the mushrooms sprouting from its bark, the grass growing by its trunk, or the humans canoodling under its shade. Appearances, however, can be deceiving. Zo

      14 min read

    • Article

      What Defines a Stem Cell?

      Dec 27, 2018

      For the past three years, researchers at the Hubrecht Institute in the Netherlands have been painstakingly cataloging and mapping all the proliferating cells found in mouse hearts, looking for cardiac stem cells. The elusive cells should theoreticall

      5 min read

    • Article

      Top 5 Real Wolves of Wall Street: Wheelers and dealers have run wild for millions of years.

      Feb 13, 2014

      Hey Disney, enough with the warm and fuzzy personification of nature! Dress her in a suit and toss her a calculator because deals are going down in the jungle. Sure, some are symbioses, with two creatures partnering for mutual benefit. But others res

      5 min read

    • Article

      Q&A

      Apr 6, 2023

      Q&A
      3 min read

    • Article

      Q&A

      May 6, 2021

      Q&A
      6 min read

    • Article

      Q&A

      Jun 1, 2023

      Q&A
      4 min read

    • Article

      Q&A

      Nov 19, 2020

      Q&A
      6 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for Amoebas, Euglenas. Radiolarians, Foraminifera, Et Alii

    0 ratings

    0 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

      Book preview

      Amoebas, Euglenas. Radiolarians, Foraminifera, Et Alii - Daniel Zimmermann

      Amoebas, Euglenas. Radiolarians, Foraminifera, Et Alii

      Amoebas, Euglenas, Radiolarians, Foraminifera, et alii

      By Daniel Zimmermann

      Amoeba, a Protean Microbe

      For countless generations, no one knew about the existence of the amoeba. Then in 1757, while the French and Indian War was raging in North America and the Seven Years’ War was afflicting Europe, this tiny creature was discovered by August Johann Roesel von Rosenhof, who is better known for his excellent paintings of insects and other creatures. His work in the science of entomology was also widely esteemed. His fame is perpetuated in the scientific name of Roesel’s bush-cricket: Metrioptera roeseli.

      I shall not tell you that amoebas are one-celled animals, that they crawl about by false feet called pseudopods, or that they engulf their prey by a process known as phagocytosis. You know that already from biology class. So why should I bore you with such data?

      However, you may not know that amoebas bravely try to accommodate themselves to their environment when external salinity increases or decreases. If the environment becomes more salty, they start getting rid of water, allowing some to migrate outside the cell. On the other hand, if they enter an environment that has a lower percentage of salt than their cytoplasm, they take on more water till their cytoplasm matches the environment in salinity. A membrane-bound structure helps them control salinity. It is called a contractile vacuole. They can deposit water in this structure or withdraw it as needed. However, their clever ploy is not always successful. Sometimes they burst.

      Animals of the genus Amoeba live a lonely life. They never marry. In fact, there is no such thing as a male or female amoeba. They multiply by cell division. This cell division is more complicated than the fission that occurs in bacteria. When a bacterium divides, it does not have to worry about replicating its nucleus because it does not have any such structure. But amoebas do, and it must be replicated so that each daughter amoeba will have one. Amoebas cannot live without a nucleus. Some types of amoeba have more than one.

      However, do not expect amoeba cell division to proceed exactly like the mitosis and cytokinesis of your skin cells. In many genera, for example, the nuclear envelope persists during cell division. (Page 531 of Biology by Campbell, Reece, and Mitchell)

      The species Amoeba proteus has an interesting name. Amoeba comes from a Greek word meaning to change or exchange. This concept of change is reinforced by the rest of its scientific name. Proteus was a mythological deity who could change his shape at will. The animal is aptly named since this amoeba is always changing its shape as it extends and retracts its pseudopods.

      Not all amoebas make cute little pets. Of course, it would take a person with rather unusual tastes to call any amoeba cute; and if you would make a pet out of one, you would need a microscope in order to see it. But Entamoeba histolytica is not a creature that you would want to have about the house, even if you could see it. It is a parasite that causes a disease called amoebic dysentery. It literally eats the tissue of human intestines.

      Amoebic dysentery is easy to contract and hard to cure. This creature has the ability to form tough cysts when immersed in an unfavorable environment. These cysts are hard to kill. In Guatemala, where the drinking water usually has a rich supply of amoeba cysts, many people will boil their water for 15 minutes to make sure that they all will die.

      In conclusion, I shall give you some food for thought. The DNA molecule of Amoeba proteus is 10 times longer than the human DNA molecule. If the evolutionists are correct in thinking that life started as simple organisms and gradually developed into organisms of greater complexity, why is the DNA molecule of this amoeba more complex than ours?

      References:

      Biology by Campbell, Reece, and Mitchell

      Wikipedia

      Funk &

      Enjoying the preview?
      Page 1 of 1