hyaline cap
Description:
As many amoebae move, the front margin of the advancing psudopodia is filled with a transparent fluid. The cytoplasm and its contents are bound together in a more gelatinous cytoplasm. The transparent region is called the hyaline cap. Phase contrast micrograph.
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- Life (creatures)
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- Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
- Amoebozoa (amoeboid protists)
- Tubulinea
- Elardia
- Euamoebida
- Amoebidae
- Chaos
- Chaos carolinense
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