Talk:Polychaos dubium

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Characteristics[edit]

This articles says "Unlike species of Amoeba, P. dubium lacks longitudinal ridges on its pseudopods", but Polychaos says "The pseudopods [of this genus] have dorsal, longitudinal ridges."

These can't both be true! 86.26.14.250 (talk) 03:45, 6 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Amoeba are incredibly diverse, existing across multiple kingdoms only as a result of advances in modern phylogenic classification. Although the free living varieties like Polychaos are among the most well studied it is not unreasonable that differeing descriptions of differing phenotype presentation will be found. Does every human you encounter have exactly the same conformation of their ears, nose, mouth, etc..? I think what you have done is engaged in fallacious thinking, like misapplying the Law of the Excluded Middle; Arisotle codified it, yet recognized its limitations (Read his Nicomachean Ethics; not the Wiki page, the text. Then read Hamlet.).BiosocialPolymath (talk) 08:54, 11 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Size of Genome[edit]

The size of the genome is quite excessive. Have others verified this size and offered an explanation why it has so much more data stored than any other organism? And an error can be ruled out? The number is propagated in literature even in lectures. 84.112.136.52 (talk) 04:48, 18 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I just came across this issue and agree the number is continuing to propagate. I was thinking of doing a complete rewrite of the page with a clear explanation, a section, about the Friz (1968) article where the gross number originated. Comments? BiosocialPolymath (talk) 08:58, 11 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Picture / Foto[edit]

Could an image be added of it? Ideally a light microscope image under permissive licence? 2A02:8388:1600:A200:CCD4:74A1:3FC0:A532 (talk) 12:45, 4 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]