draw a diagram explaining the nutrition in amoeba.

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draw a diagram explaining the nutrition in amoeba.

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Nutrition in amoeba occurs via a process known as phagocytosis in which amoeba engulfs the food inside its body. In Amoeba, mode of nutrition is holozoic nutrition that involves ingestion, digestion, absorption, assimilation and egestion of the food particles. There is no specialized organ in amoeba for the nutrition and the entire process of nutrition is carried out by the body surface with pseudopodia’s help.

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The steps of Holozoic nutrition in amoeba are given in the diagram below: -

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