Q1. Define: Ingestion, Parasite.
Q2) What are saprotrophes?
Q3) Describe the steps in
nutrition in brief.
Q5) Find out how following animals ingest their food: Human, Butterfly, Mosquito, Amoeba.
Answers
Answer:
Q1. The process of taking food, drink, or another substance into the body by swallowing or absorbing it is called Ingestion.
An organism that lives in or on an organism of another species (its host) and benefits by deriving nutrients at the other's expense is called Parasite.
Q2. Saprotrophs are organisms that obtain nutrition from dead and decaying organic matter. Examples: Fungi and some bacteria.
Q3. There are five steps
1) procurement of food
2) Ingestion
3) Digestion
4) Assimilation
5) Egestion
Q5. Amoeba (I am not sure for this)
Answer:
Q1. The process of taking food, drink, or another substance into the body by swallowing or absorbing it is called Ingestion.
An organism that lives in or on an organism of another species (its host) and benefits by deriving nutrients at the other's expense is called Parasite.
Q2. Saprotrophs are organisms that obtain nutrition from dead and decaying organic matter. Examples: Fungi and some bacteria.
Q3. There are five steps
1) procurement of food
2) Ingestion
3) Digestion
4) Assimilation
5) Egestion
Q5. Amoeba (I am not sure for this)
Explanation:PLZ MARK ME THE BRAINLIEST