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Paramecia use cilia to push food into a gullet. Volvox is photosynthetic and makes its food. How does an amoeba take in food

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An amoeba absorbs its food by engulfing it using it's psuedopods.
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Using its pseudopodia.

Step-by-step explanation:

  • Amoeba has finger-like projections or the false feet that it forms around the food particle and these projections are known as pseudopodia.
  • It is through these pseudopodia that the amoeba can take in its food.
  • Amoeba uses its pseudopodia to encircle the food and forms a food vacuole in which the food particle gets trapped and this is termed as phagocytosis.
  • Inside the food vacuole, the food particles get digested due to the various digestive enzymes and finally get absorbed whereas the undigested particles are simply thrown out of the body.
  • Thus, the amoeba can take in food via the pseudopodia.
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