Question

What is holozoic nutrition?

Answer 1

Holozoic nutrition

1. It is the nutrition that occurs in the organisms that intake solid or liquid food inside their body.
2. It involves the steps: ingestion, digestion, absorption, assimilation, and egestion.
3. The process of nutrition in amoeba is holozoic nutrition.

The nourishment process in amoeba is as follows:

1. Ingestion: It is the process of taking the food inside the mouth either by sucking or swallowing. Initial digestion begins at this stage with saliva of the mouth.
2. Digestion: It is the process in which the ingested food is digested with the help of certain enzymes.
3. Absorption: In this process, the cells use the energy from the digested food.
4. Assimilation: The energy obtained from the digested food is used by all the cells of the body.
5. Egestion: The waste products are excreted out of the body.