Explain the nutrition inparamecium
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Nutrition in paramecium
1. Ingestion in Paramecium
Ingestion of food in paramecium taken by a definite cell mouth or cytostome (cyto = cell, stoma = mouth) that is found at the bottom of buccal cavity.
2. Digestion in Paramecium
Digestion in Paramecium follows “intracellular digestion”. The food containing food vacuoles surrounded by a thin film of water is circulated around the body by a slow streaming movement of endoplasm called cyclosis.
3. Absorption in Paramecium
The digested food present in the food vacuole of Paramecium is absorbed directly into the cytoplasm by diffusion.
4. Assimilation in Paramecium
The digested food particles are passes into the cytoplasm called assimilation
5. Egestion in Paramecium
The undigested particles is expelled out from the body through an opening is called cytopyge or anal spot. It is located on the ventral surface or posterior to cytostome.