nutrition in amoeba

Question 1

What is an amoeba

Answer 1

amobea live in fresh water and feed on plankton etc.

Question 2

what does Amoeba do wen it senses food.

Answer 2

pseudopodia

Question 3

where are digestive enzymes present??

Answer 3

cytoplasm

Question 4

what is vacuole??

Answer 4

when the food is taken in the body it forms a membrane known as vacuole…

Question 5

how does digestive enzymes enter the vacuole??

Answer 5

diffusion method

Question 6

what happens when food is digested in the vacuole? how and why??

Answer 6

It starts diffusing out of the food vacuole…
The digested food flows from higher concentration to lower concentration…

Question 7

What happens when oxygen is taken int he cell?

Answer 7

When oxygen is taken in, it fuses with food present in amoeba ( glucose) this process releases energy which can run the cell’s life processes. water vapour and carbon dioxide diffuse out of the cell…

Question 8

what happens to the food vacuole and the undigested food inside it?

Answer 8

After assimilation, food vacuoles and indigested food move towards the cell membrane.

Question 9

Explain the egestion of the freshwater amoeba.

Answer 9

Food vacuole ruptures to release undigested nutrients out of amoeba cell.

Question 10

what is pseudopodia

Answer 10

Pseudopodia are projections of cytoplasm commonly observed in amoebas and other unicells…