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Life Processes - Nutrition (Class X)

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Number of Questions: 15
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Tags: Nutrition in Plants and Animals Life Processes Biology Human Digestive System Nutrition in Microbes Autotrophic Nutrition
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Which of the following factors causes heart-burn?

  1. Acid secreted by stomach reaching the heart

  2. Acid contents going back up into the esophagus

  3. pH of digestive juices getting further lowered due to intake of acidic foods

  4. Overproduction of acids in the stomach


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Correct Answer: Acid contents going back up into the esophagus

Why is the length of small intestine more in herbivores as compared to carnivores?

  1. Process of digestion in herbivores is slower than in carnivores.

  2. Herbivores do curdling of food.

  3. Cellulose takes longer time than meat to get digested.

  4. Herbivores secrete less efficient enzymes.


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Herbivores mainly consume cellulose which is a complex saccharide. It takes longer time to get digested. Meat is comparatively easily digested. Thus, carnivores have smaller intestine.

Small intestine is specially designed with finger-like projections called villi for

  1. digestion of food

  2. absorption of food

  3. assimilation of food

  4. propulsion of food


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Small intestine is specially designed with finger-like projections called villi for absorption of food. Villi increase the surface area and thus, increase the efficiency of absorption.

Bile is required for the digestion of fats. It is stored in the body in the

  1. gall bladder

  2. liver

  3. pancreas

  4. intestine


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Bile required for the digestion of fats is stored in the gall bladder.

Digestive enzymes are produced in paramecium in the

  1. gullet

  2. cilia

  3. food vacuole

  4. cytoplasm


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Digestive enzymes in paramecium are produced in the cytoplasm. They move inside the food vacuole and digest the food contents.

Stool of a mature person is greasy and white or gray. Which of the following is probably absent in his digestive tract?

  1. Amylase

  2. Pepsin

  3. Trypsin

  4. Bile


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Bile is probably absent in his digestive tract. Fats are passing out undigested as is evident from the greasy stool. Bilirubin is not getting excreted. Thus, the stool is white.

Which of the following processes take place in desert plants?

a. They take up CO2 at night. b. They absorb sunlight in the day and prepare starch at the night. c. Intermediates are prepared at night. d. Stems carry out photosynthesis. e. They store the light energy during the day.

  1. Only a, c and e

  2. Only a and b

  3. Only b and e

  4. Only a, c and d


Correct Option: D
Explanation:

a, c and d are the processes carried out by the desert plants. They take up CO2 at night. Intermediates are prepared at night. Stems carry out photosynthesis.

Plants absorb nitrogen from soil in which of the following forms?

  1. Urea

  2. Ammonia

  3. Nitrates

  4. Free nitrogen


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Plants absorb nitrogen from the soil in the form of nitrates.

Which of the following is false about chyme?

  1. It is liquid in nature.

  2. It consists of partly digested food.

  3. It is expelled to the stomach.

  4. It is acidic in nature.


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

It is untrue. Chyme is expelled to the duodenum from the stomach.

Deficiency of which of the following enzymes causes inability in adults and children to digest milk sugar?

  1. Amylase

  2. Lactase

  3. Lipase

  4. Protease


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Inability to digest milk sugar is known as lactose intolerance, which is caused by lactase deficiency. This enzyme helps in the digestion of lactose.

Which of the following organs of gastrointestinal tract synthesises enzymes for digestion of all carbohydrates, proteins and fats?

  1. Liver

  2. Stomach

  3. Pancreas

  4. Large Intestine


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Pancreas synthesises enzymes for digestion of proteins, carbohydrates and fats. It produces pancreatic amylase for carbohydrate digestion, pancreatic lipase for fat digestion and trypsin for protein digestion.

Leech is classified according to which of the following modes of nutrition?

  1. Endoparasite

  2. Ectoparasite

  3. Saprophyte

  4. Symbiont


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Leech is an ectoparasite. It lives on the host and sucks blood.

Which of the following is associated with dental plaque formation?

  1. Streptococcus mutans

  2. Streptococcus salivarius

  3. Candida sps

  4. Cryptococcus sps


Correct Option: A
Explanation:

Streptococcus mutans is a common microbe that is associated with dental plaque formation.

Which of the following enzymes is not secreted by the brush border lining of intestines?

  1. Erepsin

  2. Sucrase

  3. Trypsin

  4. Maltase


Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Intestines do not secrete trypsin. It is produced and secreted by pancreas.

Enzyme pepsin manifests its activity in

  1. alkaline conditions

  2. acidic conditions

  3. the presence of mucus

  4. the presence of a cofactor


Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Enzyme pepsin digests proteins. Pepsin is secreted by the stomach and requires acidic conditions to manifest its action.

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