Question

Taking in of food particles or foreign bodies through cell membrane is
A) Phagocytosis
B) Pinocytosis
C) Osmosis
D) Active transport

Answer 1

Hint: Endocytosis is a cellular process in which substances are brought into the cell.

Complete Answer:
- Phagocytosis, measured by which certain living cells called phagocytes ingest different cells or particles. Splitting the word Phagocytosis,Here phagos means to eat and cyto means cell. The phagocyte might be a free-living one-celled life form, for example, a one-celled Amoeba, or one of the body cells, for example, a white blood cell.
- In certain types of creature life, for example, one-celled Amoeba, phagocytosis is a method for feeding. In higher creatures phagocytosis is predominantly a guarded response against infection and attack of the body by foreign substances (antigens).
- Pinocytosis which is a cellular drinking process where the cell repeatedly takes in fluid from the surrounding environment with the help of tiny vesicles.
- Osmosis is a process where a liquid, normally water, goes through a semipermeable membrane into a region where the solvent is higher, in this manner adjusting concentration of material on either side of the membrane.
- Active transport depicts what happens when a cell utilizes vitality or energy to move something. We're not discussing phagocytosis (cell eating) or pinocytosis (cell savoring) in this part. We're discussing the movement of individual particles over the cell membrane.

So, the correct answer is option A.

Note: Phagocytosis is a certain type of endocytosis by which cells take up the solid matter, including microbial pathogens and food particles.