EVERYDAY SCIENCE

Detailed explanation-1: -It is the nutrition that occurs in the organisms that intake solid or liquid food inside their body. It involves the steps: ingestion, digestion, absorption, assimilation, and egestion. The process of nutrition in amoeba is holozoic nutrition.

Detailed explanation-2: -Holozoic nutrition (Greek: holo-whole; zoikos-of animals) is a type of heterotrophic nutrition that is characterized by the internalization (ingestion) and internal processing of liquids or solid food particles.

Detailed explanation-3: -holozoic in British English (ˌhɒləˈzəʊɪk ) adjective. (of animals) obtaining nourishment by feeding on plants or other animals.

Detailed explanation-4: -Holozoic Nutrition In a holozoic mode of nutrition, the organism feeds on complex organic matter. They ingest the complex organic matter, digest and absorb the nutrients. Example: Dog, Human beings, etc.

Detailed explanation-5: -Apart from humans, Amoeba and Dogs are other examples of Holozoic Nutrition. In Holozoic Nutrition, organic building blocks and energy is obtained by intaking other organisms, parts of other organisms, decaying organic matter, and even blood. Holozoic Nutrition is a contrast to Holophytic Nutrition.