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Life Processes
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What is the difference between intracellular and extracellular digestion?

Answer

When digestion of food takes place within the cell it is called intracellular digestion e.g., amoeba. 
When digestion of food takes place outside the cell body or in the alimentary canal, it is known as extracellular digestion e.g., man, frog etc.

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Some More Questions From Life Processes Chapter

Name the life processes needed to maintain life.

What exactly do life processes need to do?

Why does a single-celled organism not need specific organs for taking in food, exchange of gases or removal of wastes?

Why is diffusion insufficient to meet the oxygen requirements of multicellular organisms like humans?

What criteria do we use to decide whether something is alive?

What are outside raw materials used for by an organism?

What processes would you consider essential for maintaining life?

From where do you get the energy to do work from?

Name the main modes of nutrition.

What are the modes of nutrition other than autotrophic nutrition?