how does an amoeba obtain it's food? write a short answer in which I can obtain 3 marks.
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Answer: Amoeba takes in food using temporary finger-like extensions of the cell surface which fuse over the food particle forming a food-vacuole as shown in figure. Inside the food vacuole, complex substances are broken down into simpler ones which then diffuse into the cytoplasm.
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Those finger like extensions are known as Pseudopodia. *If there is a typo I am sorry*
(i) Amoeba obtains its food by the process of endocytosis. Endocytosis is the flexibility of the cell membrane to engulf food and other substances from external environment.
(ii) It also uses its membrane extensions called pseudo podia
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amoeba engulfed its food by the process of psudopodia and then it ate the food and when ever it has to excrete they burst up.
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