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Amoeba

Ciro Santilli (@cirosantilli, 37) ... Science Natural science Biology Taxonomy Species Eukaryote
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Tags: Paraphyletic subgroup
This group is a mess.
But one thing you should really know, as often mentioned in Power, Sex, Suicide by Nick Lane (2006): they are all eukaryotes.
Because prokaryotes are fundamentally unable to do phagocytosis, because they have a rigid cell wall. Changing cell shape at will requires a cytoskeleton.

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