Question

<!--td {border: 1px solid #ccc;}br {mso-data-placement:same-cell;}--> Define holozoic nutrition. Briefly explain the steps involved in the holozoic nutrition in amoeba

Answer 1

<!--td {border: 1px solid #ccc;}br {mso-data-placement:same-cell;}--> Holozoic nutrition is the process of nutrition that takes place in organisms that take solid or liquid food inside their body.

Holozoic nutrition in amoeba takes place in the following steps:
1. Ingestion: 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.
2. Digestion: The process in which food is digested by using few enzymes and are used by the cells for producing energy.
3. Absorption: The process in which cells use the energy from the digested food and helps in building tissues in our body.
4. Assimilation: The process in which digested food moves into the cells of the body.
5. Egestion: The process in which undigested food is removed out from the body through excretion.