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Amoeboid movement is the most common mode of locomotion in Eukaryotic cells. It is a crawling-like type of movement accomplished by protrusion of cytoplasm of the cell involving the formation of pseudopodia. The cytoplasm slides and forms a pseudopodium in front to move the cell forward.

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Amoeboid Movement

Ameboid movement is cell movement by pseudopodia ("false feet"). The movement occurs in four stages: 1. extension 2. adhesion 3. translocation and 4. de-adhesion.

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Type a concept, like “slope” or “photosynthesis”.

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