A protist that you observed in lab gains nutrients by absorbing small, liquid droplets. which term best describes this metabolic process?(1 point)

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Protists can be aerobic or anaerobic and have a variety of ways to eat.  Phagocytosis this term best describes this metabolic process.

Protists are tiny, unicellular organisms, but some of them are actually multicellular. A small percentage of protists are found in colonies, which exhibit characteristics of both a multicellular organism and a collection of free-living cells. Chloroplasts are a characteristic of photoautotrophs, which are protists that store energy through photosynthesis.

A process known as phagocytosis, in which the cell membrane engulfs a food particle and draws it inside, puncturing off an intracellular membranous sac, or vesicle, termed a food vacuole, is how amoebas and some other heterotrophic protist species consume particles. The food particles gets divided into small molecules that can spread into the cytoplasm and be utilized in cellular metabolism when the vesicle that contains the ingested particle, the phagosome, joins forces with a lysosome that contains hydrolytic enzymes to create a phagolysosome. Unprocessed material is eventually ejected from the cell by exocytosis.

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