2. What is meant by absorption, assimilation and egestion
3. What is rumination ?
4. What happens to the food we eat
(a) in the stomach ?
5. How does an amoeba get food ?
(b) in th
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Answer:1
Absorption is the release of digested food into the blood stream. Assimilation is the use of digested food in the organisms cells. Egestion is the removal of indigestible waste materials from the body.
Answer:2
The process of continuously thinking about the same thoughts, which tend to be sad or dark, is called rumination. A habit of rumination can be dangerous to your mental health, as it can prolong or intensify depression as well as impair your ability to think and process emotions.
Answer:3
After food enters your stomach, the stomach muscles mix the food and liquid with digestive juices. The stomach slowly empties its contents, called chyme, into your small intestine. Small intestine. ... The walls of the small intestine absorb water and the digested nutrients into your bloodstream
Answer:4
Amoeba takes in food using temporary finger-like extensions of the cell surface which fuse over the food particle forming a food-vacuole. Inside the food vacuole, complex substances are broken down into simpler ones which then diffuse into the cytoplasm.