Prescott's Microbiology
Prescott's Microbiology
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ISBN: 9781259281594
Author: Joanne Willey, Linda Sherwood Adjunt Professor Lecturer, Christopher J. Woolverton Professor
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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A form of digestion that takes place inside the cytoplasm of an organism is called intracellular digestion. Ingestion and subsequent digestion of possible nutrient source is an extremely conserved mechanism across the species. Intracellular digestion has evolved into an intricate detection and removal process that extends beyond nutrient acquisition. Autophagy and phagocytosis are the two parallel processes that accomplish ingestion and digestion and they widely distributed in nature.

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