Question
How does ingestion occur in unicellular animals like amoeba?
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Answer
- Amoeba does not have organs like hands and mouth.
- It is a unicellular animal. It can take in food through any part of the surface of its unicellular body.
- It surrounds the food particle from all sides to take it into the cell.
- After that it digests the food with the help of different enzymes.
- Undigested food is left behind as the amoeba moves further with the help of pseudopodia.
- In unicellular animals like amoeba, euglena, paramoecium,. etc. all the steps of nutrition occur within their unicellular body.
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