Nutrition in animals

What is ingestion?

• The Process of taking food into the body.

• The process by which the absorbed food is use by the body, to generate energy.

• The process by which the digested food moves in the blood and cells of the body.

What is Holozoic nutrition?

• The kind of nutrition where food is taken into the body as a liquid or solid .

• The process by which the undigested food and waste is sent out of the body.

• The kind of nutrition where a living organism make its own food using simple substances that it gets from its environment.

• The process by which food is further broken down. Most animal exhibit this kind of nutrition

What is Mastication?

• The process of chewing food properly.

• The process of tearing and piercing food into smaller pieces.

• Its helps the digestive system to stay healthy.

The_______ in the mouth which helps to mix the food with saliva.

What are pseudopodia?

• The finger like projections of amoeba

• The food of an organisum

What is the meaning of digestion?

• The process of breaking down complex food into simpler substances.

• The process of breaking simple sugar into starch.

______ are pointed and are used for piercing and tearing food into smaller pieces.

When the food is swallowed, a flap called the ______ prevents the food from entering the wind pipe and choking the person.

A child has __________Milk teeth (10 in each jaw ____ incisors, ______ canines and ________Molars.

_________and _______ teeth are same in each jaw.

• Premolars

• Canine

• Molars

• Incisors