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Describe the process of nutrition in Amoeba with the help of diagram.

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In Amoeba, as soon as it comes in contact with a food particle or prey, it throws pseudopodia all around the food particle. The tips of encircling pseudopodia fuse and the prey comes to lie in a vesicle or phagosome. This method of intake of food is called circumvallation.
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