Bernard Cornwell on how meeting his real father inspired a Saxon epic. Bernard Cornwell: coming to York. THERE arenât many characters in modern historical fiction that grab you by the throat the way Bernard Cornwellâs Uhtred of Bebbanburg does. Heâs foul-mouthed, lustful, bad tempered, and soaked in the blood of the enemies heâs slaughtered.
Amoeba is a genus of single-celled amoeboid protists in the family Amoebidae. The type species of the genus is Amoeba proteus, a common freshwater organism, widely studied in classrooms and laboratories.
Amoeba is a heterotroph i.e they absorb their food directly from the external environment. Some are parasites. Amoeba eat algae, bacteria, plant cells and also protozoans.Amoebas engulf their food. parasite is also a heterotroph. A parasite feeds  off other organisms for its food. An example of a parasite is a  deet tick. An example of a decomposing heterotroph is an earthworm.  An earthworm decomposes biological matter in soil for its food.