In the diagram, which of the following processes are shown in Amoeba?
A
Exocytosis
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B
Phagocytosis
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C
Pinocytosis
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D
Both A and B
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Solution
The correct option is D Both A and B
Phagocytosis is a process of ingestion of extracellular foreign particles or bacterium and its subsequent digestion. Amoeba does this by extending their pseudopodia around the food and envelops it completely with cytoplasm which results in the formation of food vacuole.
Food vacuole fuses with the lysosome containing digestive enzymes. As digestion goes on, the food vacuole shrinks, and the products of the digestion are diffused into the cytoplasm.
Egestion of the undigested residue takes place at any point on the surface of the body and the process is called exocytosis.