1. How can food provide nutrients?
2. How do amoeba, paramecium, hydra and frog procure their food?
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Explanation:
1) Nutrients are compounds in foods essential to life and health, providing us with energy, the building blocks for repair and growth and substances necessary to regulate chemical processes. There are six major nutrients: Carbohydrates (CHO), Lipids (fats), Proteins, Vitamins, Minerals, Water.
2) Amoeba, a unicellular animal, engulfs tiny particles of food by using pseudopodia. Amoeba surrounds the food by pseudopodia and then makes a food vacuole to engulf the food. In multicellular organisms; like hydra there are numerous tentacles around their mouth. ... Then the food is pushed inside the body cavity.
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Nutrients are compounds in foods essential to life and health, providing us with energy, the building blocks for repair and growth and substances necessary to regulate chemical processes. There are six major nutrients: Carbohydrates (CHO), Lipids (fats), Proteins, Vitamins, Minerals, Water
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Mode of feeding in Hydra is phagocytosis. Hydra captures the prey with the help of specialized cell called a cnidocyst, produce the nematocysts and tentacles. These contacts and brings the food towards the mouth. ... In Paramecium, food is ingested through a definite cell mouth.