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Digestion and Absorption
Very Short Answer Questions
Q1. Give the dental formula of adult human beings
Q2. Bile juice contains no digestive enzymes, yet it is important for digestion How?
Q3. Describe the role of chymotrypsin Name two other digestive enzymes of the same category and secreted by the same gland.
Q4. What would happen if HCl were not secreted in the stomach?
Q5. Explain the terms thecodont and diphyodont dentitions
Q6. What is auto catalysis? Give two examples
Q8. Name the different types of salivary glands of man, and their locations in the human body
Q9. Name different types of papillae present on the tongue of man
Q10. What is the hardest substance in the human body? What is its origin?
Q11. Name the structure of gut which is vestigial in human beings, but well developed in the herbivores And mention the type of tissue with which it is mostly formed
Q12. Distinguish between deglutition and mastication
Q13. Distinguish between diarrhoea and constipation
Q14. Name two hormones secreted by the duodenal mucosa
Q15. Distinguish between absorption and assimilation
Q1. Draw a neat labelled diagram of L S of a tooth?
Q2. Describe the process of digestion of proteins in the stomach
Q3. Explain the role of pancreatic Juice in the digestion of proteins
Q4. How are polysaccharides and disaccharides digested?
Q5. If you take butter in your food how does it get digested and absorbed in the body? Explain
Q6. What are the functions of liver?
Q1. Describe the physiology of digestion of various types of food in the human digestive system
Q2. Explain the digestive system of man with neat labelled diagrams