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When does a amoeba eat?
To eat, the amoeba stretches out the pseudopod, surrounds a piece of food, and pulls it into the rest of the amoeba's body. Amoebas eat algae, bacteria, other protozoans, and tiny particles of dead plant or animal matter.
What kind of food does amoeba eat?
The Amoeba eats Algea, Bacteria, Plant Cells, and aslo other unicellular organisms
How do amebas eat?
They engulf their food. The amoeba's body wraps around the food and it is ingested, then digested.
Do amoeba's produce their own food?
No they do not. They "eat" through a process known as phagocytosis.
What is an amoeba's main food source?
they eat smaller organisms like bacteria
Compare the way amoeba and chlamydomonas eat?
Amoebas eat by wrapping their bodies around their food and chlamydomonas eat by photosynthesis.
Is amoeba animal-like or plantlike?
Amoeba is animal-like because they can not do photosynthesis which other plant-like protists can do. Amoeba are protozoans. Amoeba hunt for their food. They eat bacteria, smaller protozoans and other smaller organisms.
Which organelle will help store and digest the food amoeba will eat?
Lysosomes hope that helps! :)
What does amoeba eat by?
To eat, the amoeba stretches out the pseudopod, surrounds a piece of food, and pulls it into the rest of the amoeba's body. Amoebas eat algae, bacteria, other protozoans, and tiny particles of dead plant or animal matter. Amoebas reproduce (make more amoebas) by a process called binary fission.
What and how do amoeba's eat?
An amoeba cell eats other unicellular organisms like paramecium, bacteria, and plant cells. Some are even parasitic! Amoeba cells eat by moving its cytoplasm (also called pseudopods) around its prey. The prey is literally inside the amoeba now. The Amoeba forms a vacuole around it and breaks it down for nourishment and absorbs it through its cytoplasm.
How the amoeba uses it pseudopods?
Pseudopods serve two important functions-locomotion and food capture, activities that are often interrelated. Amoebas use their pseudopods to ingest food by a method called phagocytosis (Greek: phagein, to eat).The streaming of protoplasm inside the pseudopods moves the amoeba forward. When the organism contacts a food particle, the pseudopods surround the particle. After the food is corralled by the amoeba, an opening in the membrane allows the food particle to pass into the cell. Inside the cell, the food is enclosed within food vacuoles, digested by enzymes, and assimilated by the amoeba. The amoeba expels particles that are not acceptable as food.
How does amoeba engulf solid food particles?
a amoeba engulfs it food by endocytosis
