NEET BIOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Amoebas use their pseudopods to ingest food by a method called phagocytosis (Greek: phagein, to eat). The streaming of protoplasm inside the pseudopods moves the amoeba forward. When the organism contacts a food particle, the pseudopods surround the particle.

Detailed explanation-2: -Phagocytosis is a process by which amoeba ingests or engulfs food particles with the help of pseudopodia. It is the process which helps the amoeba to obtain nutrition.

Detailed explanation-3: -Pseudopodia in amoeba are used for locomotion, buoyancy, and food ingestion (phagocytosis). The type of cellular locomotion is used to be the basis for grouping animal-like protists (protozoans).

Detailed explanation-4: -An amoeba takes in food using temporary extensions called “pseudopods” on the cell surface which envelop the food particle completely, forming a “food-vacuole". Inside the food vacuole, complex substances are broken down into simpler ones.