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Animals posses nerve networks or nervous systems to respond to their environment. But the single celled Amoeba does not possesses any nerve cell, so how it come to know whether a particle it encounters is gain or sand and not its dinner

A

By chemotaxis

B

By skin

C

By hormones

D

All of these

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A
Although the amoeba has no sense organ it responds to chemical stimuli. It makes this determination by chemotaxis a kind of chemical sense
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