Question

Identify the statement(s) that are true regarding nutrition in amoeba.

• A. Amoeba uses pseudopodia to engulf food.
• B. Amoeba performs intracellular digestion.
• C. Amoeba senses food with psuedopodia to engulf it.
• D. Amoeba exhibits autotrophic mode of nutrition.

Answer 1

Answer: (A), (B), (C)

The correct options are
A Amoeba uses pseudopodia to engulf food.
B Amoeba performs intracellular digestion.
C Amoeba senses food with psuedopodia to engulf it.

• Amoeba forms a shallow groove known as pseudopodia to sense and engulf food.
• As amoeba is a unicellular organism all the steps of nutrition i.e., digestion, absorption and assimilation and egestion take place in a single cell. This is known as intracellular digestion and the mode of nutrition is holozoic.