3. Give reasons for the following:
(a) Ingestion of food is difficult without teeth.
(b) If we chew rice, or bread, for a few minutes, it starts tasting sweet.
(c) Bacteria are present in the caecum of ruminants.
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a) As food will be not broken into smaller pieces for the digestive juices to act
b) Rice or bread has starch which is complex sugar, so we start tasting sweet after few minutes
c) Many bacteria are present in the caecum of cow, which help in the digestion of a nutrient called cellulose which is contained by plants.
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a) ingestion of food is difficult without teeth because teeth helps in the mechanical digestion of the food.
b) If we chew rice, or bread, for a few minutes, it starts tasting sweet because of the action of saliva on the starch present in these food items and convert this starch into simpler sugers or glucose.
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