Nutrition in Animals: Glands and Digestion

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The movement of food in food pipe is called

Linear movement Rectilinear movement Smooth movement Peristaltic movement

Bile is produced in

Gall bladder Blood Liver Spleen

There are given some parts of digestive system, choose the odd one out

Stomach Liver Pancreas Salivary gland

In which of the statements is or are incorrect, about eating habits of animals?

Animals that obtain their food by killing other animals, called scavengers. Organisms that obtain their food from other animals either by living inside or outside their body, called parasite. Animals that consume plants as well as other animals as their food, called omnivorous. Animals that obtain their food only from plants, called herbivorous.

What do you mean by “salivary digestion”?

When fats breakdown into fatty acids and glycerol, called salivary digestion. When proteins breakdown into amino acids, called salivary digestion. When cud returns to the mouth in small lumps and the animal chews it, called salivary digestion. None of the above.

The swallowed food moves down-words in the alimentary canal because of

Force provided by the muscular tongue. The flow of water taken with the food. Gravitational pull. The contraction of muscles in the wall of food-pipe.

Curd is the name given to the food of ruminants which is

Swallowed and undigested Swallowed and partially digested Properly chewed and partially digested Properly chewed and completely digested

The largest gland in our body is:

Liver Salivary gland Pancreas Gallbladder

The teeth which helps in biting the food are the:

Canines Incisors Premolar Molars

Number of canines present in an adult are:

4 6 8 16

The gland located just below the stomach is:

Liver Pancreas Gall bladder None of these

Villi are present in the inner walls of:

Stomach Small intestine Large intestine None of these

The semi-solid mass which is produced after thoroughly mix up of food and gastric juice is called

Bolus

Chyme

Bile

Villus

The component of food which is complex is

Protein

Carbohydrate

Fat

All of these

The way of taking food by bees is

Swallowing

Sucking

Filtering

None of these

The process through which undigested food is expelled out of the body is called

Digestion

Absorption

Assimilation

Egestion

The false feet of Amoeba are used for:

Movement only

Capture of food only

Capture of food and movement

Exchange of gases only

The finger-like outgrowths of Amoeba helps to ingest food. However, the finger-like outgrowths of human intestine helps to:

Digest the fatty food substances

Make the food soluble

Absorb the digested food

Absorb the undigested food

The main function of the lacteals of intestine is the absorption of

Amino acids

Glucose and vitamins

Lactic acid

Fatty acids and glycerol

The enzymes present in the saliva convert:

Fats into fatty acids and glycerol

Starch into simple sugars

Proteins into amino acids

Complex sugars into simple sugars

Quiz/Test Summary
Title: Nutrition in Animals: Glands and Digestion
Questions: 20
Contributed by:
Jonathan James