An amoeba is a single-celled organism. Endocytosis or phagocytosis is the method through which it acquires its meal.
Endocytosis is a process in which the plasma membrane spreads outwards to swallow particles on the outside.
In Amoeba, the plasma membrane engulfs food particles on the outside and transports them inside the cell via endocytosis by producing a food vacuole around the particle with pseudopodia.
Food is taken in by amoeba by transient finger-like projections of the cell surface that fuse over the food particle to create a food vacuole. Complex compounds are broken down into simpler ones inside the feeding vacuole and diffuse into the cytoplasm.
