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

Amoeba uses pseudopodia to engulf food.

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Amoeba performs intracellular digestion.

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Amoeba senses food with psuedopodia to engulf it.

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Amoeba exhibits autotrophic mode of nutrition.

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Solution

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.

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