explain the nutrition in Amoeba and Paramecium
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Nutrition in Amoeba. 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.
The food of Paramoecium consists of bacteria, yeasts, algae, and small protozoa. The cilia of the oral groove are more or less fused to form an undulating membrane which sweeps the food particles down through the cytostome into the cytopharynx. ... With this, the food vacuole gradually diminishes in size.
Answer:Paramecium is a unicellular organism. It has a definite shape and food is taken in at a specific spot called oral grove. Food is moved to the oral grove by the movement of cilia which are hair-like structure that cover the entire body surface of paramecium.
Once the food enters the cell, it is surrounded by a food vacuole. Digestive enzymes come in correct with food vacuole and carry out the process of digestion as in case of amoeba.