Question

nutirtion.in.amoeba​

Answer 1

Amoeba followed the ${\pink{Holozoic}}$ mode of nutrition.

Different stages are process of nutrition:

• Amoeba followed Holozoic form of nutrition.

• Ingestion: It is process by taking of food in the body.

• Digestion: It is the process of Breaking The large and insoluble molecules in the small and in soluble molecules.

• Absorption : The food digested by digestive enzymes and observed in the cytoplasm by the process of diffusion.

• Assimilation : This process of utilising absorbed food for obtaining energy repair and growth is called assimilation.

• Egestion : When is sufficient amount of undigested food gets collected in the food vacuole it is thrown out of the body by referring cell membrane the process of removal of undigested food from the body is called egestion.

Additional information

Amoeba is an important Protozoa found in freshwater.

It feeds and microscopic plants and animals present in the water.

The mode of nutrition in Amoeba is holozoic and the process of obtaining food by Amoeba is called Phagocytosis.

Amoeba follows holozoic mode of nutrition in which the solid food particles are injected which are then actor upon by enzymes and digested.

Amoeba engulfs food by temporary finger like projections of its body surface called pseudo podium when is pseudo podium fuses with the foot particle it forms a food vacuole.