Very Short Answer type Questions :-
1. What does gastric juice help to convert?
2. What is the main function of teeth?
3. What are the two components of digestive system?
4. What is oesophagus ?
5. Why does bread taste sweet when chewed for some time?
6. Give one instant source of carbohydrate?
7. Where the digestion does starts?
8. What is not digested by human?
9. Name the glands present in the mouth.
10. Where is bile produced?
11. Name the process of taking in food?
12. What helps the food to taste it by our tongue?
13. Name the largest gland in human body.
14. Which part of Amoeba helps in capturing the food particles?
15. Name the organ that helps in nutrition in Hydra?
Answers
Answer- The above question is from the chapter 'Nutrition in Animals'.
Given question: Very Short Answer type Questions :-
1. What does gastric juice help to convert?
2. What is the main function of teeth?
3. What are the two components of digestive system?
4. What is oesophagus ?
5. Why does bread taste sweet when chewed for some time?
6. Give one instant source of carbohydrate.
7. Where does the digestion start?
8. What is not digested by humans?
9. Name the glands present in the mouth.
10. Where is bile produced?
11. Name the process of taking in food?
12. What helps the food to taste it by our tongue?
13. Name the largest gland in human body.
14. Which part of Amoeba helps in capturing the food particles?
15. Name the organ that helps in nutrition in Hydra?,
Answer: 1. Gastric juice helps to convert proteins.
2. The main function of teeth is to bite, cut and crush food into smaller pieces.
3. The two components of digestive system are: mouth (buccal cavity) and stomach.
4. Oesophagus is a tube which connects buccal cavity to stomach and helps in passing the food by the process of "peristaltis".
5. Bread contains starch which when mixed with saliva after chewing, breaks down into simple sugars, resulting in a sweet taste.
6. One instant source of carbohydrate is rice.
7. The digestion starts in the mouth.
8. Cellulose is not digested by humans.
9. Salivary glands are present in the mouth.
10. Bile is produced in gall bladder.
11. The process of taking in food is called ingestion.
12. Taste buds help the food to get tasted by our tongue.
13. Liver is the largest gland in the human body.
14. Pseudopodia (false feet), finger-like projections help Amoeba in capturing the food particles.
15. The organ that helps in nutrition in Hydra is tentacles.