Question

Explain through diagrams ingestion of food in Amoeba what is the function of taste buds ?

Answer 1

*Amoeba is a microscopic single-celled organism found in pond water which has a cell membrane, a round, dense nucleus and many bubble like vacuoles.

*The shape of amoeba is variable.

It has tiny finger like projections called pseudopodia or false feet for movement and capture of food.

*It eats tiny organisms by spreading out its pseudopodia around its food particle and then engulfing it.

*The food gets trapped inside food vacuole, into which digestive juices are secreted and convert them into simpler substances.

*The digested food is then absorbed which is required for growth, maintenance and multiplication.

*The undigested food is expelled out by vacuole.