Answer the following in short :-
1. What is digestion?
2. What is ingestion?
3. What do you mean by egestion?
4. Write the function of the large intestine.
5. What is pseudopodia?
6. Name the animal that digests its food in the food vacuoles.
Answers
Answer:
1) Digestion is how our body turns food u eat into nutrients it uses for energy, growth and cell repair.
2)Ingestion is a process of taking food,drink,or another substances into the body by swallowing and absorbing it.
3) Ingestion is the process of voiding or discharging undigested faeces.
4)Large intestine is much broader than the small intestine & takes a much straighter path through your abdomen.The purpose of large intestine is to absorb water and salt from the material that has not been digested as food, and get rid of any waste product left over.
5)Pseudopodia is a arm like projection filled with cytoplasm primarily made up of cytoskeleton.
Required Answers:-
1. What is digestion?
→ Digestion is the process in which the complex food substances are broken into simpler substances so that the blood can absorb them and transport them to each and every cell of our body.
2. What is ingestion?
→ Ingestion is the very first step of the process of holozoic nutrition. It involves the intaking of food. Different organisms use different organs for ingestion. In human ingestion takes place through hand.
3. What do you mean by egestion?
→ Egestion is the process of removal of undigested or unwanted food particles through the body in the form of faeces.
4. What is the function of large intestine?
→ The main function of the large intestine is to form faeces and store it temporarily.
5. What is pseudopodia?
→ Pseudopodia are the finger like structure sticking out the body of an ameoba.
6. Name the animal that digests its food in the food vacuole.
→ The animal that digests its food in the food vacuole is amoeba.
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