Biology

Life Processes

Question:

Name the parts of the digestive system of a grasshopper.

Answer:

The parts of digestive system of a grasshopper are pharynx, salivary glands, hepatic caeca, malpighian tubules, ileum, colon, rectum and anus.

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Life Processes

Q 1.

What is saliva? State its role in the digestion of food.

Q 2.

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

Q 3.

What are the functions of liver and pancreas in the human digestive system ?

Q 4.

Name one organism each having saprophytic, parasitic and holozoic modes of nutrition.

Q 5.

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

Q 6.

What is the role of saliva in the digestion of food?

Q 7.

List three characteristics of lungs which make it an efficient respiratory surface.

Q 8.

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

Q 9.

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

Q 10.

(a) What is common for Cuscuta, ticks and leeches ?
(b) Name the substances on which the following enzymes act in the human digestive system :
(i) Trypsin (ii) Amylase (iii) Pepsin (iv) Lipase
(c) Why does absorption of digested food occur mainly in the small intestine ?

Q 11.

Which gases are exchanged in your lungs ?

Q 12.

Name the final product/products obtained in the anaerobic respiration, if it takes place :
(a) in a plant (like yeast).
(b) in an animal tissue (like muscles).

Q 13.

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

Q 14.

What will happen if platelets were absent in the blood?

Q 15.

What are enzymes? Name any one enzyme of our digestive system and write its function.

Q 16.

Write correct sequence of four steps of method for the preparation of temporary mount of a stained leaf peel.

Q 17.

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

Q 18.

Name the component of blood that helps in the formation of blood clot in the event of a cut.

Q 19.

(a) Name the pigment in leaves which absorbs sunlight energy.
(b) What is the colour of this pigment ?

Q 20.

Arrange the following processes involved in the nutrition in animals in the correct order (in which they take place):
Assimilation, Egestion, Ingestion, Absorption, Digestion

Q 21.

What substance is mixed with food in the mouth during chewing by the teeth ?

Q 22.

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

Q 23.

(a) Define a nutrient. Name four important nutrients present in our food.
(b) What are the various types of heterotrophic nutrition ?

Q 24.

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 25.

(a) What is photosynthesis ?
(b) Write a chemical equation to show the process of photosynthesis in plants.
(c) Explain the mechanism of photosynthesis.

Q 26.

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

Q 27.

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 28.

What would be the consequences of deficiency of haemoglobin in our bodies ?

Q 29.

State the function of epiglottis.

Q 30.

What are the living organisms that cannot make their own food called?

Q 31.

What happens to visible light of the Sun when it falls on chlorophyll?

Q 32.

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

Q 33.

Mention the major events during photosynthesis.

Q 34.

Why and how does water enter continuously into the root xylem?

Q 35.

Why is transpiration important for plants?

Q 36.

Draw a diagram of human excretory system and label renal artery and urethra.
State in brief the function of :

  1. renal artery
  2.  kidney
  3.  ureter
  4. urinary bladder

Q 37.

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

Q 38.

(a) Draw a diagram to show open stomatal pore and label on it:
(i) guard cells
(ii) chloroplast
(b) State two functions of stomata.
(c) How do guard cells regulate the opening and closing of stomatal pore?

Q 39.

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

Q 40.

Describe in brief the function of kidneys, ureters, urinary bladder and urethra.

Q 41.

(a) What is meant by breathing? What happens to the rate of breathing during vigorous exercise and why?
(b) Define translocation with respect to transport in plants. Why is it essential for plants? Where in plants are the following synthesised?
(i) Sugar (iii) Hormone

Q 42.

Which is the basic requirement of living organisms for obtaining energy ?

Q 43.

Which of the following type of energy is used by living organisms to perform vital life processes ?
Kinetic energy, Chemical energy, Potential energy, Nuclear energy

Q 44.

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

Q 45.

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

Q 46.

Why do we boil the leaf in alcohol when we are testing it for starch ?

Q 47.

What is the scientific name of the animals which are :
(i) only meat eaters ?
(ii) only plant eaters ?
(iii) both, plant and meat eaters ?

Q 48.

What moves the food in the digestive organs ?

Q 49.

(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.

Q 50.

(a) Photosynthesis converts energy X into energy Y. What are X and Y ?
(b) State the various steps involved in the process of photosynthesis.