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

(a) X is sunlight energy and Y is chemical energy. (b) The photosynthesis takes place in the following three steps: (i) Absorption of sunlight en...

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

(a) A nutrient can be defined as a substance which an organism obtains from its surroundings and uses it as a source of energy or for the biosynthesis...

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Answer to: What are heterotrophs? Give one example of heterotrophs. (b) What is the difference between autotrophic nutrition and heterotrophic nutrition?

(a) Those organisms which cannot make their own food from inorganic substances like carbon dioxide and water, and depend on other organisms for their ...

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

(a) Autotrophs are those organisms which can make their own food from carbon dioxide and water. Example: Green Plants. (b) The conditions necessa...

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Answer to: 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.

(a) The criteria to decide whether something is alive is the movement. (b) The basic functions performed by living organisms to maintain their life...

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Answer to: What is chlorophyll? What part does chlorophyll play in photosynthesis? (b) (i) Which simple food is prepared first in the process of photosynthesis?

(a) Chlorophyll is a green coloured pigment present in the leaves of plants. It helps in absorbing energy from sunlight during the process of photosyn...

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Answer to: Name the enzyme present in human saliva. What type of food material is digested by this enzyme?

Salivary amylase is present in human saliva. It digests starch. Which of the organs perform the following functions in humans: (i) Absorption of ...

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Answer to: From which part of the body, undigested food is egested in Amoeba?

Amoeba has no fixed place for egestion. The undigested food gets collected inside amoeba, then its cell membrane suddenly ruptures and the undigested ...

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