Question

Define various steps of holozoic nutrition.

Answer 1

Holozoic nutrition:

1. The process of nutrition that takes place in organisms that take solid or liquid food inside their body.
2. Amoeba follows holozoic nutrition.

Steps in holozoic nutrition:

Ingestion:

1. The process the food is taken inside through the mouth and broken down by teeth and initial digestion takes place in the mouth by saliva.

Digestion:

1. The process in which food is digested by using few enzymes and are used by the cells for producing energy.

Absorption:

1. The process in which cells use the energy from the digested food and helps in building tissues in our body.

Assimilation:

1. The process in which digested food moves into the cells of the body.

Egestion:

1. The process in which undigested food is removed out from the body through excretion.