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hyaline cap

Image of Chaos carolinense

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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David J Patterson
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