Biology

Life Processes

Question:

What is the significance of emulsification of fats?

Answer:

Fats are present in food in the form of large globules which makes it difficult for enzymes to act on them. Bile salts present in bile break them down mechanically into smaller globules which increases the efficiency of fat digesting enzymes lipase.

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Life Processes

Q 1.

How does Amoeba engulf the food particle ?

Q 2.

What will happen if mucus is not secreted by the gastric glands?

Q 3.

Define (2) saprophyte, and (22) parasite. Name two saprophytes and two parasites.

Q 4.

(a) Which part of the body secretes bile ? Where is bile stored ? What is the function of bile ?
(b) What is trypsin ? What is its function ?

Q 5.

Name two animals which breathe through gills.

Q 6.

Explain why, it is dangerous to inhale air containing carbon monoxide.

Q 7.

Apart from sunlight and chlorophyll, what other things are required to make food by photosynthesis ?

Q 8.

Where is chlorophyll mainly present in a plant ?

Q 9.

Name the following :
(a) The process in plants which converts light energy into chemical energy.
(b) Organisms that cannot prepare their own food.
(c) Organisms that can prepare their own food.
(d) The cell organelle where photosynthesis occurs.
(e) The cells which surround a stomatal pore.
(f) An enzyme secreted by gastric glands in stomach which acts on proteins.

Q 10.

Name one organism which can live without oxygen.

Q 11.

State whether the following statements are true or false :
(a) During respiration, the plants take C02 and release 02.
(b) Energy can be produced in cells without oxygen.
(c) Fish and earthworm exchange gases during respiration in the same way.

Q 12.

What are the different ways in which glucose is oxidised to provide energy in various organisms ? Give one example of each.

Q 13.

What is the mode of nutrition in fungi?

Q 14.

In which kind of respiration is more energy released?

Q 15.

Is nutrition' a necessity for an organism? Discuss.

Q 16.

Name the energy currency in the living organisms. When and where is it produced?

Q 17.

What would be the consequences of deficiency of hemoglobin in your body?

Q 18.

Name two excretory products other than 02 and  CO2 in plants.

Q 19.

A Give one reason why multicellular organisms require special organs for exchange of gases between their body and their environment. :

Q 20.

What is the other name of food pipe ?

Q 21.

What is the name of tiny projections on the inner surface of small intestine which help in absorbing the digested food ?

Q 22.

(a) What are autotrophs ? Give one example of autotrophs.
(b) What are the conditions necessary for autotrophic nutrition ?

Q 23.

a) How do plants obtain food ?
(b) Why do plants need nitrogen ? How do plants obtain nitrogen ?

Q 24.

In which type of respiration, aerobic or anaerobic, more energy is released ?

Q 25.

Out of photosynthesis and respiration in plants, which process occurs :
(a) all the time ?
(b) only at daytime ?

Q 26.

Name an animal which absorbs oxygen through its moist skin.

Q 27.

Name the red pigment which carries oxygen in blood.

Q 28.

What is the name of tiny air-sacs at the end of smallest bronchioles in the lungs ?

Q 29.

Explain why, when air is taken in and let out during breathing, the lungs always contain a residual volume of air.

Q 30.

State the three common features of all the respiratory organs like skin, gills and lungs.

Q 31.

Explain how, it would benefit deep sea divers if humans also had gills.

Q 32.

Name the two stages in photosynthesis.

Q 33.

Give two points of differences between respiration in plants and respiration in animals.

Q 34.

Define photolysis.

Q 35.

Other than chlorophyll, which other pigment is necessary for photosynthesis?

Q 36.

How do the guard cells regulate opening and closing of stomatal pores?

Q 37.

What is the advantage of having four chambered heart?

Q 38.

Explain the process of nutrition in Amoeba.

Q 39.

Draw a neat diagram of excretory system of human beings and label on it:
(i) Left kidney (ii) Urinary bladder

Q 40.

List the three kinds of blood vessels of human circulatory system and write ¦ their functions in tabular form.

Q 41.

(a) Draw a sectional view of the human heart and label on it – Aorta, Right ventricle and Pulmonary veins.
(b) State the functions of the following components of transport system:
(i) Blood (ii) Lymph

Q 42.

Name the intermediate and the end products of glucose breakdown in aerobic respiration.

Q 43.

What is the mode of nutrition in human beings?

Q 44.

Which of the following is an autotroph ? Green plant or Man

Q 45.

In addition to carbon dioxide and water, state two other conditions necessary for the process of photosynthesis to take place.

Q 46.

(a) Name a gas used in photosynthesis.
(b) Name a gas produced in photosynthesis.

Q 47.

Name the green pigment present in the leaves of a plant.

Q 48.

Name the biological catalysts which bring about chemical digestion of food.

Q 49.

(a) What is chlorophyll ? What part does chlorophyll play in photosynthesis ?
(b) (i) Which simple food is prepared first in the process of photosynthesis ?
(ii) Name the food which gets stored in plant leaves.

Q 50.

(a) What criteria can be used to decide whether something is alive ?
(b) What is meant by life processes ? Name the basic life processes common to all living organisms which are essential for maintaining life.