Amoebas eat by literally swallowing their food
Amoebas, single-celled wonders, capture food by literally surrounding and swallowing it through phagocytosis, a fundamental process also used by our own immune cells.
Imagine eating by wrapping your entire body around your meal! That's how amoebas, tiny single-celled organisms, feed. They use temporary extensions called pseudopods to engulf bacteria or algae in a process called phagocytosis, pulling the food inside to digest it.
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