f) What does epiglottis do?
g) How many chambers are present in the stomach of the ru
8.
Answer the following questions in detail.
a) What is the role of the stomach in the digestive process?
b) Explain the roles of liver, gall bladder, and pancreas in the
c) What happens to the food in the small intestine?
d) How does digested food get absorbed?
e) How does the digestion of food take place in ruminants?
f) How does amoeba get its nutrition?
9.
Look at the given picture and label all the parts of the
one specific function of each part.
Answers
f) Epiglottis is a flap that shuts off the wind pipe when we swallow food.
g) 4 The ruminant stomach is composed of 4 separate compartments.
a) The stomach has 3 main functions:
temporary storage for food, which passes from the esophagus to the stomach where it is held for 2 hours or longer. mixing and breakdown of food by contraction and relaxation of the muscle layers in the stomach. It also mixes gastric juice with the food.
b) The liver digests food by producing bile to break down fats, removing toxins and breaking down and storing some vitamins and minerals. The pancreas produces enzymes to help break down proteins, fats and carbohydrates. The gall bladder stores the bile that is produced by the liver.
c) Small intestine absorbs most of the nutrients from the food , absorbing almost all of the nutrients you get from foods into your bloodstream.
d) The small intestine absorbs most digested food molecules, as well as water and minerals, and passes them on to other parts of the body for storage or further chemical change. Specialized cells help absorbed materials cross the intestinal lining into the bloodstream.
e) Digestion in ruminants occurs sequentially in a four-chambered stomach. ... The mass is finally passed to the true stomach, the Abomassum, where the digestive enzyme lysozyme breaks down the bacteria so as to release nutrients.
f) Amoeba Obtain Its Food By:
Amoeba envelops its food through the process of endocytosis or phagocytosis, where pseudopodia is created by flexibility of the plasma membrane. ... Inside the food vacuole, complex substances are broken down into simpler ones which then diffuse into the cytoplasm.
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