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How does amoeba eat food?

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Updated: 8/16/2019

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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.


What is an amoeba's main food source?

they eat smaller organisms like bacteria


Do amoeba's produce their own food?

No they do not. They "eat" through a process known as phagocytosis.


Compare the way amoeba and chlamydomonas eat?

Amoebas eat by wrapping their bodies around their food and chlamydomonas eat by photosynthesis.


Which organelle will help store and digest the food amoeba will eat?

Lysosomes hope that helps! :)


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 does food storage and digestion take place in amoeba?

The digestion of food in Amoeba takes place in the food vacuole. :)


What do amoeba eat on?

Amoeba eats other organisms and smaller protists


How does Amoeba eat's?

Amoebas engulf their food by surrounding it with their cell membrane to form a food vacuole. Then, they release digestive enzymes into the vacuole to break down the food into nutrients that can be absorbed by the amoeba's cell. Once the nutrients are absorbed, the remaining waste is expelled from the cell.


How does an amoeba move and eat?

An amoeba moves by extending its pseudopods, which are temporary projections of its cytoplasm. It engulfs food particles by phagocytosis—a process where it surrounds the food with its cell membrane and forms a food vacuole, which is then digested by enzymes.