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    Digestion is a hydrolytic process that uses digestive enzymes to break down complex foods into simpler molecules. There are two types of digestion: intracellular digestion, where food particles are engulfed by cells and digested within vesicles using lysosomal enzymes; and extracellular digestion, where digestive enzymes are secreted into a cavity or space outside the cells to digest food. Examples that use both intracellular and extracellular digestion include coelenterates and free-living flatworms.

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    Digestion is a hydrolytic process that uses digestive enzymes to break down complex foods into simpler molecules. There are two types of digestion: intracellular digestion, where food particles are engulfed by cells and digested within vesicles using lysosomal enzymes; and extracellular digestion, where digestive enzymes are secreted into a cavity or space outside the cells to digest food. Examples that use both intracellular and extracellular digestion include coelenterates and free-living flatworms.

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    Digestion is a hydrolytic process that uses digestive enzymes to break down complex foods into simpler molecules. There are two types of digestion: intracellular digestion, where food particles are engulfed by cells and digested within vesicles using lysosomal enzymes; and extracellular digestion, where digestive enzymes are secreted into a cavity or space outside the cells to digest food. Examples that use both intracellular and extracellular digestion include coelenterates and free-living flatworms.

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    3.1 Digestion.

    The process by which complex food is converted into simplest food with the
    help of digestive enzymes (Hydrolytic enzymes), hence process of digestion is a
    hydrolytic process.
    Types of digestion
    (i) Intracellular : When the process of digestion occurs within the cell in the
    food vacuole. Examples : Protozoa, Porifera, Coelenterata and free living
    platyhelminthes. With the help of lysosomal enzymes. Food particle is taken in
    through endocytosis (phagocytosis). It forms a phagosome which fuses with a
    lysosome. Digestion occurs and the digested materials are passed on to
    cytoplasm. The undigested materials is thrown out by exocytosis.
    (ii) Extracellular : When the process of digestion occurs outside the cell.
    Examples : Coelenterates and phylum platyhelminthes to phylum chordata.
    Therefore, coelenterata and free living platyhelminthes (flat worms) perform both
    intracellular and extracellular digestion.

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