What is pseudopodia in science?

Answer 1

A pseudopod (any of several "false-feet") is an appendage that a protist in the phylum Mastigophora (i.e. an amoeba) uses. It is constantly reshaping and contracting to allow the protist to move.

Answer 2

a pseudopod is an organism with a "false foot," such as an amoeba, so pseudopodia is an organism with this characteristic.
pseudopodia means the extended part of the ameoba EG: if the food is placed from a distance the ameoba extends its body part as it has no leg and surroundds or traps the food then brings the food towards itself therefore( the extended part of the body) or the false leg is called as the pseudopodia
Pseudopodia are extensions that may bulge from a cell's surface.

Pseudopodia is also known as "false foot" from the composition of the word pseudo (meaning false), and pod ( foot).

Answer 3

The word pseudopodia is the plural form of pseudopod which in Latin means false foot; it is used to refer to an extrusion of a unicellular animal such as (typically) an amoeba. The amoeba moves by changing its own shape, sending out an extrusion and then flowing into that extrusion.

Answer 4

A pseudopodium (name derived from "false foot") is the outstretched region of the cell body of an amoeba that allows it to move.
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Answer 5

pseudopodia is a finger like progections found in amoebe for locomotion.

Answer 6

Pseudopodia are projects of the cell membrane that are used to envelop extracellular material.