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Human Digestive System

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The human digestive system explores the breakdown of biomacromolecules, covering organs from the stomach to the small intestine. It involves physiological processes like chyme movement, pH levels, and nutrient absorption in the gut. These fundamental biology concepts are regularly featured in medical and general science competitive exams.

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Human Digestive System Questions

Multiple choice
  1. Protein content of food

  2. Carbohydrate content of food

  3. Oil content of food

  4. Fat content of food

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Any food that contains fat causes the gallbladder to release bile. The higher the fat content of the food or meal, the more bile is released.

Multiple choice
  1. secretion of succus entericus

  2. secretion of rennin

  3. secretion of ptylin

  4. digestion of food

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

The mucous amembrane of intestinal wall is a single layered eptithelium of tall columber cells with interspersed golbelt cells. Thee epithelial cells have microvilli. In between the villi the mucous membrane is profusely folded and the infolding form pit-like simple tubular intestinal glands or crypts of Leiberkuhn. These secrete the intestinal digestive juice called succus entericus. Rennin is component of gastric juice secreted from stomach. It secreted in form of inactive proenzyme called prorennin. It changes the soluble casein proein of milk into insoluble semifluid calcium paracaseinate.Saliva is secreted from salivary glands. The saliva contain ptyalin (salivary amylase) in mammals. 

Multiple choice
  1. In saliva and tears both

  2. In tears

  3. In saliva

  4. In mitochondria

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Lysozyme is an antibacterial enzyme present in phagocytic cells, tears, saliva, sweat and other body secretions. It digest peptidoglycan in bacterial cell wall. 

Multiple choice
  1. liver starts storing excess of protein

  2. liver starts storing excess of fat

  3. liver starts storing excess of starch

  4. liver starts storing excess of glycogen

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

In a person, addict for alcohol a part of alcohol is changed to acetaldehyde. Hangover is due to it. Acetaldehyde stimulates formation of fat which is deposited over the wall of arteries and in the cells of liver . With the accumulation of fat the liver cell fail to produce protein and enzymes. There is little regulation of fat, protein and carbohydrate metabolism. This disorder is called fatty liver syndrome. Liver later turns into a fibrous organ. 

Multiple choice
  1. fat in the meal

  2. protein in the meal

  3. carbohydrate in the meal

  4. all of the above

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Bile is secreted by liver and is stored in the gall bladder. In human bile there are two salts sodium taurocholate and sodium glycocholate. Emulsification of fat takes place through tehse bile salts, therefore, the amount of bile will release in proportion to the amount of fat in meal. 

Multiple choice
  1. urea, glycogen and water

  2. urea and water

  3. blood plasma except blood protein

  4. concentrated blood

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

The water and many dissolved substances form the blood are filtered into the lumen of the bowman's capsule. The glomerular filtrate contains a large amount of water and other substances. Thus, glomerular filtrate and blood plasma are similar except that glomerular filtrate does not have protein and fats. 

Multiple choice
  1. cell vomiting

  2. cell drinking

  3. cell eating

  4. None of the above

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Pinocytosis, otherwise known as cell drinking fluid endocytosis, and bulk-phase pinocytosis, is a mode of endocytosis in which small particles are brought into the cell, forming an invagination, and then suspended within small vesicles.

Multiple choice
  1. thromboplastin

  2. lipase

  3. protease

  4. pyrophosphate

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

The enzyme liberated by platelet is thromboplastin. It helps in blood coagulation.

Multiple choice
  1. intestine

  2. stomach

  3. caecum

  4. rectum

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Rumen of a cow is a part of its stomach. It serves as the primary site for microbial fermentation of ingested feed.