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Write a short note on encystment in amoeba.

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During unfavorable condition (increase or decrease in temperature, scarcity of food) Amoeba withdraws its pseudopodia and secretes a three- layered, protective, chitinous cyst wall around it and becomes inactive. This phenomenon is called encystment. When conditions become favourable, the encysted Amoeba divides by multiple fission and produces many minute amoeba called pseudopodiospores, each with a fine pseudopodia. They feed and grow rapidly to lead an independent life.
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