An Experimental System to Study Phagocytosis

 

Donna M. Bozzone and Denise A. Martin

Tested Studies in Laboratory Teaching, 2000, Volume 21

Abstract

A laboratory exercise using simple technique of feeding ink to protozoan, Tetrahymena, to observe and quantitate phagocytosis in the protozoan. It also introduces students to the microscope and inquiry-based laboratory investigations

Keywords:  phagocytosis

University of Nebraska, Lincoln (1999)