The first and simplest methods involves viewing amoebas under the microscope without staining. This is a simple method that allows students to view them live as they move around. The second method involves fixing and staining to get a better view of …

My Microscopic World have found some amoebas and made an educational microscopy video about them.

2024年4月11日 · When you observe an amoeba under the microscope, you may see a colorless, transparent organism with constantly changing shape as it extends and retracts its pseudopods. If you use staining techniques, you may also be able to observe specific cellular structures, such as the nucleus and food vacuoles.

2024年12月2日 · 1. Amoeba under the microscope. Amoeba is a unicellular organism in the Kingdom Protozoa. It is a eukaryote and thus has membrane-bound cell organelles and protein-bound genetic material with a nuclear membrane. Amoeba moves with their pseudopodia, which is a specialized form of the plasma membrane that results in a crawling motion of the organism.

An amoeba's cell's organelles and cytoplasm are enclosed by the membrane. Ameoba have one pseudopod used for navigation and movement. Each amoeba has one or more nuclei and a simple contractile vacuole to maintain osmotic equilibrium. Food enveloped by the amoeba is stored and digested in vacuoles.

2024年5月19日 · The direct examination of a species (without staining) offers a significant benefit in that amoebae remain alive and mobile when observed under a microscope. It allows students to observe the finger-like projections (pseudopods) lengthen and shrink as the organism travels around or takes in substrates.

2015年11月13日 · Amoeba Video No. 1 - A shape-shifting amoeba looks like it's filled with confetti as it slides across the microscope field; under darkfield illumination at a magnification of 400x with a playing time of 37.3 seconds.

Here I show you how to find them so that you can observe them under the microscope. Amoeba are not the easiest microbes to see. They can be small, they are transparent and they do not move quickly.

The top image of Amoeba proteus, gives a good insight in the amoeba's anatomy. Amoebas have a single cell that appears to be not much more than cytoplasm held together by a flexible cell wall. Floating in this cytoplasm all kinds of cell bodies can be found. The most obvious is the nucleus.

2013年9月6日 · Amoeba using its pseodopodia to ooze forward (100X magnification, no sound). Believe it or not, this is a single cell! Video recorded by Lee Beavington at ...