. The cell; outlines of general anatomy and physiology. e to take solid bodies up into theirprotoplasm, and to digest them. Thus Rhizopoda capture othersmall unicellular organisms with which their widely outstretchedpseudopodia come into contact (Figs. 10, 60). The pseudopodiawhich have seized the foreign body contract, and so graduallydraw it into the mass of the protoplasm ; here the nutrient sub-stances are extracted, whilst the indigestible remains, such asskeletal structures, are after a time ejected to the exterior. Evensolid substances, which possess but small nutritive value, are taken


. The cell; outlines of general anatomy and physiology. e to take solid bodies up into theirprotoplasm, and to digest them. Thus Rhizopoda capture othersmall unicellular organisms with which their widely outstretchedpseudopodia come into contact (Figs. 10, 60). The pseudopodiawhich have seized the foreign body contract, and so graduallydraw it into the mass of the protoplasm ; here the nutrient sub-stances are extracted, whilst the indigestible remains, such asskeletal structures, are after a time ejected to the exterior. Evensolid substances, which possess but small nutritive value, are takenup. If carmine or cinnabar granules are introduced into the water, 142 THE CELL the Rliizopoda eagerly seize upon them, so that after a short timetheir whole bodies are quite filled with them. Infusoria (Fig. 50) eat Flagellata, unicellular Alga? and Bacteria,conveying them into their endoplasm through an opening in which functions as a mouth. Here a vacuole filled withfluid forms itself round each foreign body, which V KJ£J r


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