explain the process of nutrition in amoeba.In your own words
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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.
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Amoeba is a microscopic organism. Its body is made of single celled eliminated by a thin membrane and filled with cytoplasm.Amoeba is capable of changing its shape and pushing out finger like projection called pseudopodia Amoeba comes in contact with it foods microscopic plants and animals.it is reaches out to see the body around the food gradually the tips of the pseudopodia fuse with each other.as a result of food cavity of food vacuole is formed which contains the food particles now the food vacuole receive digestive juices from the body the juice contain enzyme that act on the food and break it into simpler insoluble substances these substances are absorbed into the cytoplasm and stored or utilise for its growth development and releases of energy the food which remains undigested is expelled through the cell membrane digestion and food vacuole prevent digestive enzyme to mix with the cytoplasm
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