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Expert: - 8/26/2005


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How does amoeba detects the presence of food in its surrounding ? Is amoeba also conscious of what he do?

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Hi hemant:
The amoeba is sensitive to changes in the watery environment surrounding it. A change in the movement of the water or in the chemistry will cause the amoeba to move in that direction.  The activity is not a conscious one.  Our concept of consciousness depends upon a higher nervous system taht that possessed by one celled organisms.

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