pinocytosis
"Pino- is the intake of fluid from outside environment which can include anything... Ions, viruses, proteins.... Pinocytosis is like putting your hand in a mix of candy jar and picking whatever comes into your hand."
"Another form of endocytosis is pinoeyto$is. Pinocytosis is sometimes refmed to as "cell drinking." In pinocytosis, small droplets ofliquids or large molecules enter the
cell via an invagination ofthe cell membrane. Pinocytosis is like phagocytosis only on a much smaller scale. Both processes require ATP as a source ofenergy."
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