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The document discusses nutrition in amoebas and humans, asking questions about how paramecium and humans obtain food and digest it. It asks about the roles of the stomach, small intestine, bile juice and various digestive enzymes in breaking down carbohydrates, proteins and lipids in food.

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X Assignment 2 (Life Processes)

The document discusses nutrition in amoebas and humans, asking questions about how paramecium and humans obtain food and digest it. It asks about the roles of the stomach, small intestine, bile juice and various digestive enzymes in breaking down carbohydrates, proteins and lipids in food.

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ASSIGNMENT – II

Nutrition in Animals (Amoeba & Human being )

1. How does paramecium get its food?


2. Define peristalsis.
3. Name the muscle that regulates exit of food from stomach
4.Give reason
a. Herbivores have larger small intestine than carnivore
b. Bile juice does not contain any enzyme, still it is essential for
digestion
c. Adults sometimes complain about acidity.
5. Write the composition of gastric gland. State the role of each.
6. How is the small intestine designed to absorb the food
7. Explain the process of nutrition in Amoeba with diagram
8. State the role of following enzyme
-- Salivary amylase
-- pepsin
-- Trypsin
-- Pancreatic lipase
9. Write the end products of food digestion.
10.How is carbohydrate digested in human alimentary canal ?
11.

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