DUMET Medical DUMET Medical Solved Paper-2007

  • question_answer
    Mode of feeding in free living protozoan is

    A)  holozoic        

    B)  saprozoic

    C)  both [a] and [b]

    D)  none of these

    Correct Answer: A

    Solution :

    Free living protozoan has holozoic mode of nutrition. They have no specific organ for intake of food. Holozoic nutrition involving engulfment of the whole or a pan of a plant or animal, either in solid or in liquid state. In saprozoic nutrition, animal do not ingest solid food. Instead they secrete digestive enzymes directly into their food, which usually are dead or decaying matters. 


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