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Microrganisms with memory - IndEX

Data >> 26/3/2007

Researchers and scientists of the University of Princeton and Missouri in Saint Louis have observed movements, routes, sudden turns of  ameba specimens and of a particular type of zooplancton "hunting" for food.
From the observations it has been concluded that unicellular organisms too are able to adopt startegies based on memory to feed themselves: amebas and plancton did not move at random in their environment, but they used sophisticated research strategies, moving in order to optimise the search for food.

Let's delve deeper:
Amebas, heterotroph protists
A particular ameba
A long alimentary chain that starts with plancton

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