How Is A Food Vacuole Formed. Food vacuole in a Paramecium 1 Yeast cells are ingested and a food vacuole is formed. 2 The food vacuole is initially red in color from the red stained yeast cells.
Digestion of the food particle occurs in a vesicle enclosed by a membrane that separates the digestion from the cytoplasm. The cilia sweep the food particle into the oral groove the phagocyte engulfs the food particle and forms a food vacuole and the lysosomes break down the contents of the food vacuoles using hydrolysis so that the cell can absorb the nutrients. In the ciliate Paramecium where the process has been researched in detail the digestive vacuoles initially decrease in size and the enclosed particles aggregate Read More.
Food material is enclosed in food vacuoles which are bounded by cell membrane.
This form of eating is called phagocytosis. In phagocytosis food particles are trapped by surrounding pseudopodia and they engulf it inside the cell forming a vesicle called phagosomes. Enzymes for the breakdown of the food are delivered to the food vacuole from the cytosol. To begin the cellular eating process the cell membrane curves to envelope a particle of food.
