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Q: Is amoeba engulfing its food an example of active transport?
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The Na-K pump is an example of active transport?

Bulk Transport is an example of active transport. The process by which amoeba engulfs its food and secretes is a type of active transport. Amoeba forms false feet like pseudopodia and engulf food.Active and Passive transport both are related with plasma membrane. Active Transport is the transport of food across plasma membrane with expenditure of energy.


How do large food particles enter amoeba?

Active transport


Does an amoeba have a choloroplast?

Most amoeba do not have chloroplasts. However, recent studies show that amoeba can obtain choloroplasts from engulfing photosynthetic alga.


What is a type of active transport used by an amoeba?

how does the ameba transport the food and other materials to all th parts of the cell


What is your best explanation for the action occurring in this picture?

an amoeba is engulfing its food


How do large food particles enter the amoeba?

The amoeba uses phagocytosis (it surrounds it and brings it into a vesicle).


Describe the morphological features of amoeba proteus?

Amoeba proteus is a unicellular protozoan. It has prominent pseudopodia for locomotion, and engulfing food via phagocytosis. It is transparent or colorless.


How ameoba take food?

amoeba is a phagocyte. it means that it is a cell which absorbs waste material, harmful microorganisms, or other cells by engulfing them. the process of engulfing food is called phagocytosis.


How do you describe how an amoeba feeds in your own words?

An amoeba feeds through a process called phagocytosis. Phagocytosis works by a cell engulfing its food source, puncturing the cell wall, and digests it in its food vacuole.


What organisms use pseudopods for feeding and movement?

Amoebas move by means of pseudopodia, or the sarcodine protozoa. This characteristic movement involves the extrusion of the cytoplasm for movement or for feeding by engulfing food.


What is the process of taking food by amoeba?

They use the process called "Engulfing" to produce food inside of there body.


Is an amoeba an example of a prokaryotic cell?

No Amoeba is not prokaryotic , it is Protist .