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It contains nutrients by the food particle. It stores nutrients and then it move onward to the digestive system. It contains nutrients by the food particle. It stores nutrients and then it move onward to the digestive system.

ADDED: A single-celled organism, such as an amoeba, cannot be said to have a digestive "system", but still digests its food by breaking it down chemically.

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Amoebas obtain food by engulfing the food and obsorbing it into their system. The cell membrane forms around the nutrients and breaks off from the rest of the cell membrane. The nutrient with part of the cell membrane forms a vacuole. This process uses energy so it is called a active transport.

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