Salivary Glands

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Mention the three salivary glands that secrete saliva

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The nature of saliva is

1. Neutral

2. Basic

3. Acidic

4. Depends on the food we eat.

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How is thorough chewing of food helpful in digestion?

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Salivary glands are present in the buccal cavity and secrete saliva that helps in the digestion of food.

Which complex food nutrient is broken down by the saliva into simple compounds?

1. Starch

2. Fats

3. Proteins

4. Vitamins

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Saliva converts_________________.

1. Proteins into amino acids

2. Glycogen into glucose

3. Starch into maltose

4. Fats into Vitamins

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Try to swallow the saliva in your mouth and feel your neck with your hand. What happens in the neck?

Q. Name the glands associated with digestive system.

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Where do we find glandular columnar epithelia? What are their main role?

Q. Give one example of each of the following:
(a) Germ killing body secretion.

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Starch digesting enzymes are produced in

1. salivary gland and liver

2. stomach and pancreas

3. salivary gland and pancreas

4. stomach and liver

Q. Short / Long answer type questions.
What happens to the food in the mouth?

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What would be the effect produced if:

The adrenal gland is removed.

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Which of the following organs is affected by Mumps virus?

1. Parotid salivary gland

2. Maxillary salivary gland

3. Intestine

4. Blood

Q. Did you observe any change in pH after eating ? What caused the change ?

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Entamoeba histolytica feeds on _______.

1. digested food

2. Both RBCs and digested food

3. WBCs

4. RBCs

Q. Name the glands associated with digestion of starch in human digestion track. Mention their role? How is required pH maintain and stomach intestine?

Q. Insulin being protein is digested in stomach but in small babies antibodies which they get from their mother's milk is not digested.Why is it so ??

Q. Describe apocrine gland

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The function of secretion is shown by both, ________ and _________ epithelium.

1. Ciliated, squamous

2. Columnar, glandular

3. Cuboidal, glandular

4. Cuboidal, squamous

Q. Salivary glands are____________

1. Merocrine
2. Apocrine
3. Holocrine
4. None of these
   

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State whether the following are simplex reflex, coordinated reflex, or neither of the two

Coughing during swallowing

Q. Short / Long answer type questions.
How many salivary glands are there in human mouth? Name them

Q. How many pairs of salivary glands are there in humans

1. 1
2. 2
3. 3
4. 4

Q. Acid neutraliser present in mucus of saliva is

1. Thiocyanate
2. Sodium acetate
3. Bicarbonate ion
4. Sodium hydroxide

Q. If salivary amylase is lacking in the saliva, which of the following events in the mouth cavity will be affected?

Q. Secretin stimulates production of ______.

1. Gastric juice
2. Bile
3. Chylomicron
4. Saliva

Q. Glandular epithelium is distinguished as unicellular and multicellular epithelium on the basis of number of cells. When we state unicellular glandular epithelium do we mean that only one type of cell in that tissue is responsible for secretion or does only one cell in the tissue secrete?

Q. Assertion :The sight, smell and presence of food in the oral cavity can stimulate secretion of saliva. Reason: The activities of the gastro-intestinal tract are only under neural control for proper coordination of different parts.

1. both assertion and reason are true and reason is the correct explanation of assertion.
2. both assertion and reason are true but reason is not the correct explanation of assertion
3. assertion is true but reason is false.
4. both assertion and reason are false.

Q. Write any two of the tree pairs of salivary glands as per their position.

Q. Which of the following statements is incorrect regarding lysozyme present in saliva?

1. It acts is an antibacterial agent.
2. It prevents infections.
3. It acts as an enzyme.
4. All of these