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What is food vacuole ?

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Food vacuole:

  1. The food vacuole or digestive vacuole is a membrane-bound cell organelle associated with a digestive function. ​
  2. They possess the digestive enzymes that help with the breaking down of nutrients
  3. They take up the food material by the process of phagocytosis and the ingested food is digested by this vacuole.
  4. Amoeba is an example of an organism which digests food using food vacuoles.


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