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What are the similarities between nutrition in amoeba and nutrition in paramecium?


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Both undergo intracellular digestion.

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Both engulf food that comes on their way.

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Digestion is carried out with help of digestive juices secreted in the food vacuole.

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None of the above.

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Both undergo intracellular digestion.


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Digestion is carried out with help of digestive juices secreted in the food vacuole.


Amoeba and Paramecium are both unicellular organisms undergoing similar method of digestion. The only difference is: paramecium doesn't “engulf” its food like amoeba does but take in particles of food through its “mouth” ( the oral groove). Paramecium creates a food vacuole as well, but the vacuole is separate from the “mouth” whereas amoeba engulf their prey and create a food vacuole surrounding the food.


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