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

Liver secretes bile which helps in the emulsification of fats. Pancreas secretes pancreatic juice which emulsifies starch, proteins and fats.

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Answer to: 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?

(a) Liver secretes bile which gets stored in the gall bladder. Bile performs two functions: (i) Makes the acidic food coming from the stomach alk...

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Answer to: What is the role of hydrochloric acid in our stomach? (b) What is the function of enzymes in the human digestive system?

(a) Hydrochloric acid: It makes the medium of gastric juice acidic so that the enzyme pepsin can digest the proteins properly and also kills any bacte...

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Answer to: What substances are contained in pancreatic juice? What are their functions?

Pancreatic juice contains digestive enzymes Pancreatic Amylase, trypsin and lipase. Functions: (a) Pancreatic amylase: The enzyme amylase breaks...

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Answer to: What substances are contained in gastric juice? What are their functions?

The gastric juice contains three substances; hydrochloric acid, the enzyme pepsin and mucus. Functions: (a) Hydrochloric acid: It makes the medi...

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Answer to: How does carbon dioxide from the air enter the leaves of a plant to be used in photosynthesis? (b) How does water from the soil reach the leaves of a plant to be used in photosynthesis?

(a) The carbon dioxide gas enters the leaves of the plants through the stomata present on their surface. (b) The water required by the plants for p...

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Answer to: Define (i) saprophyte and (ii) parasite. Name two saprophytes and two parasites.

(a) Saprophyte: Saprophytes are the organisms which obtain their food from dead plants (like rotten leaves), dead and decaying animal bodies, and othe...

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Answer to: Define (i) saprophytic nutrition (ii) parasitic nutrition, and (iii) holozoic nutrition. Give one example of each type.

(i) Saprophytic nutrition: It is that nutrition in which an organism obtains its food from dead organic matter of dead plants, dead animals and rotten...

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

(a) Plants obtain food by a process called photosynthesis. (b) Plants need nitrogen to make proteins and other compounds. They take up nitrogen fro...

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