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How does ingestion occur in unicellular animals like amoeba?

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1. Amoeba does not have organs like hands and mouth. 

2. It is a unicellular animal. It can take in food through any part of the surface of its unicellular body. 

3. It surrounds the food particle from all sides to take it into the cell. 

4. After that it digests the food with the help of different enzymes. 

5. Undigested food is left behind as the amoeba moves further with the help of pseudopodia. 

6. In unicellular animals like amoeba, euglena, paramoecium,. etc. all the steps of nutrition occur within their unicellular body.

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