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Class XI · Chapter 8 · Walkthrough

Protoctista — meet the protists

01 · Amoeba

Amoeba — the shape-shifter

An Amoeba has no fixed shape. It pushes out pseudopodia ("false feet") to crawl and to surround food, engulfing it into a food vacuole. ▶ Play to watch it move.

02 · Paramecium

Paramecium — the slipper

Paramecium is covered in tiny beating cilia that row it through water and sweep food into an oral groove. A contractile vacuole pumps out excess water.

03 · Euglena

Euglena — neither plant nor animal

Euglena swims with a flagellum, senses light with an eyespot, and carries chloroplasts — so it photosynthesises like a plant yet can also take in food like an animal.

🔬 Protist vieweramoeba
Watch the protist move.