Question

What is pinocytosis?

Answer 1

the ingestion of liquid into the cell by the budding of small vesicles from the cell membrane.

Answer 2

Pinocytosis is a type of Endocytosis which involves intake of materials.

Pinocytosis is also called cell drinking process as fluid materials having high molecular weight such as proteins amino acids and fats, in the form of globules of fluid enter the cytoplasm by invagination of plasma membrane