explain nutrition in amoeba
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Explanation:
Nutrition in an Amoeba occurs through a process called phagocytosis where the entire organism pretty much engulfs the food it plans on eating up. The mode of nutrition in amoeba is known as holozoic nutrition. It involves the ingestion, digestion and egestion of food material.
Amoeba is single cell heterotrophic and hollow ongarism Amoebo do not have complex system for nutrition like higher animals in amoeba the process of nutrition complete into following steps. Ingestion, digestion absorption, assimilation & egestion) Amoeba takes in food wring temparaty finger-like extensions of the cell surface which fuse over the food particle forming a food-vacuole Inside the food -vacuple, complex sushtance are broken. down into simpler ones which then diffuse into the cytoplasm The remaining undigested material is moved to the surface of the cell and thrown out.