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Q: What is the process called when a cell surrounds a large particle with pseudopodia and then engulfs it?
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What process is an amoeba using when it engulfs a food particle?

The process is phagocytosis .


Protoplasmic extension of the amoeba group?

If you are referring to its eating habits, it has finger like projections known as pseudopodia which is an an extension that engulfs food in the process known as phagocytosis.


Which protists surrounds and engulfs its food?

The protist amoeba does. I think this process is called exocytosis.


What is a type of active transport by which a cell surrounds a large particle?

The process is called endocytosis.


A white blood cell surrounds and engulfs a worn out red blood cell forming a vesicle around the red blood cell this process is called?

phagocytosis


A white blood cell surrounds and engulfs a worn-out red blood cell forming a vesicle around the red blood cell. This process is called .?

phagocytosis


When a cell will engulf a large food molecule to take it in?

This would be called phagocytosis. Pseudopodia would extend out from the cell and sorround the large foreign particle, thereby engulfing it in its own membrane. This membrane would break off and re-connect together, leaving the particle in a membrane, able to then have enzymes injected to dissolve it for varoius purposes depending on what it is.


Is the process by which white blood cells move in and out of blood vessels called phagocytosis?

No. Phagocytosis is the process in which a cell engulfs and takes in a particle. Some white blood cells are phagocytes, taking in and destroying bacteria.


How do amoba eat?

Amoeba surrounds completely its prey with ithe projections of the protoplast , that are called pseudopodia. and along with some water, it takes in the prey within its cell. The process is called phagocytosis.


When a cell membrane surrounds a particle encloses it into a vesicle and brings the particle into the cell this is called?

The process is called phagocytosis, which means "cell eating".


What is the process in which an amoeba engulfs its prey?

metaphor sis


How does an ameoba eat?

The ameba is a single celled organism, and engulfs its food by using 1) Psuedopods 2) Cell membrane. The ameba surrounds its food with their psuedopods, meaning their "legs" but not really since they don't actually have legs. Next, using their cell membrane, the food is pushed inside.