Define intracellular digestion. Give one example of an animal where this type of digestion takes place.

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Intracellular digestion is the digestion that takes place within the cells, in the cytoplasm of an organism. The enzymes present in the cytoplasm help in the process of intracellular digestion.

For example, Amoeba is a unicellular organism in which digestion of food takes place in the food vacuole within the cells.

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