Difference between Ingestion and Digestion
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Ingestion |
Digestion |
1. | The process of taking food in or another item into the body with the help of swallowing or absorbing to it is called as Ingestion. | The process where breaking down of complex food into simple chemical compounds, later which can be absorbed as nutrient or to take energy and nutrition is called as digestion. |
2. | No ATP release and storage takes place in ingestion process, Hence, it is ATP independent process. | ATP release and storage takes part in digestion process. Hence, it includes synthesis of ATP and storage of ATP. |
3. | Ingestion is mainly a single process. | Digestion is mainly a complex process. |
4. | Ingestion process is independent of enzymes Or it does not include the action of enzymes. | Digestion process is dependent of enzymes Or it includes action of enzymes. |
5. | Ingestion process mainly occurs in mouth. | Digestion process mainly occurs in mouth, stomach as well as intestine. |
6. | With the help of endocytosis, ingestion takes plan in protozoa. | Digestion takes place inside vesicles in the cytoplasm of protozoa. |