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Cells can take in solids by the process of endocytosis.

The cell membrane (plasma membrane) folds in, surrounding the solids, and pinches off to form a vacuole in the cytoplasm. The cell then secretes enzymes into the vacuole, and any digestible compounds in the solids are broken down and absorbed across the vacuole membrane into the cytoplasm.

There are two types of endocytosis:

if solids are taken in, the process is phagocytosis;

if the vacuole contents are entirely liquid, it is pinocytosis.


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