Discuss how a multicellular organism would use specialized cells to digest food, whereas a unicellular organism would not.

Question

**Think about how a human eats a bowl of spaghetti and digests it. Now compare that to how an amoeba or bacterial cell would digest "food". How are the two processes different?

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1. When a human digests food it would use..... When an amoeba or other single-celled organism digests food it would use...

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Answer 1

When a human digests food it would use specialized cells in the stomach and intestines to break down the spaghetti into smaller pieces. These cells release enzymes and acids to help digest the food. When an amoeba or other single-celled organism digests food, it would engulf the food using its cell membrane and break it down inside the cell. This process does not involve specialized cells like in multicellular organisms.