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What is food vacuole ? [2 Marks]

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The food vacuole or digestive vacuole is a membrane-bound cell organelle (as in an Amoeba) associated with a digestive function. [1 Mark]
They take up the food material by the process of phagocytosis and the ingested food is digested by food vacuole. [1 Mark]

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