Ingestion

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Name the glands relative to digestive system along with their functions.

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What is the role of digestive glands?

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What is tooth decay and how is it caused?

Q. How food moves in the opposite direction during vomiting?

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Write a short note on mechanical digestion and chemical digestion. Name the location where both the types take place. [3 MARKS]

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Difference between salivary amylase and pepsin.

Q. The process of taking food in through the mouth is called __________.

1. digestion
2. chewing
3. ingestion
4. egestion

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Explain the process of nutrition in Amoeba.

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How does the Amoeba intake food? Briefly mention.

Q. What is nutrition? Explain the process of nutrition in the Amoeba with help of a diagram.

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Write a note on functions of the following organs in the human body? [5 MARKS]
1. Tongue
2. Gall bladder
3. Small intestine
4. Villi
5. Teeth

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What is nutrition

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How long hunger pangs continue in our stomach?

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Which hormone is responsible for regulating the normal basal metabolism?

Q. Saliva helps in the breakdown of starch into simple sugars.

1. 
   True
2. 
   False

Q. The tongue helps in mixing food with saliva.

1. True
2. False

Q. Saliva helps in the breakdown of starch into simple sugars.

1. 
   True
2. 
   False

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What do you mean by bolus and chyme?

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State the relationship between the following and fill in the blanks.

Salivary glands : _____________ :: Liver : Bile

Q. Is Saliva a mixtue?

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When you swallow food where does it go first?

Q. What is nutrition? What is the mode of nutrition in amoeba known as? Draw diagram and explain.

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What is the amoeba doing in the image shown below?

1. Preparing food
2. Respiration
3. Forming food vacuole
4. Forming contractile vacuole

Q. The process of taking in food through the mouth is called ingestion.

1. True
2. False

Q. We know that the lever is the largest gland of our body.
​But which is the smallest internal organ of our body then?

Q. Question 19
Match the animals in Column I with their mode of feeding listed in Column II.

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The process of taking in food through the mouth is called

1. digestion

2. ingestion

3. assimilation

4. absorption

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Where is the pancreas located in the human body?

Q. The correct order of the various steps of human nutrition is:

1. Ingestion, egestion, digestion, absorption, and assimilation
2. Ingestion, egestion, assimilation, absorption, and assimilation
3. Ingestion, assimilation, digestion, absorption, and egestion
4. Ingestion, digestion, absorption, assimilation, and egestion

Q. Ingestion of food in human beings is facilited by

1. Oesophagus
2. Buccal activity
3. Muscular tongue
4. Trachea