Question

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

Answer 1

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

Answer 2

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.