A Difflugia Amoeba  

The design artist Elinor Mossop created from drawings and photos of amoebae and then transferred onto the silicon wafer to create a textured surface is visible in this SEM micrograph. The wider shot reveals the unpredictable landscape that the amoebae had to encounter while alive. This particular amoeba is a Difflugia, identified by its oblong shape, rounded at one end and with a wide aperture at the opposite end.


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