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Questions Related to food trends
Carbohydrates are generally called as saccharides.
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True
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False
Carbohydrates (also called saccharides) are molecular compounds made from just three elements: carbon, hydrogen and oxygen. Monosaccharides (e.g. glucose) and disaccharides (e.g. sucrose) and polysaccharide (starch). They are often called sugars.
The food which includes the essential nutrients in a definite quantity is termed as balanced diet.
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True
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False
Nutrients that we obtain through food have vital effects on physical growth and development, maintenance of normal body function, physical activity and health. Nutritious food is, thus needed to sustain life and activity. Our diet must provide all essential nutrients in the required amounts. Requirements of essential nutrients vary with age, gender, physiological status and physical activity. Dietary intakes lower or higher than the body requirements can lead to under nutrition (deficiency diseases) or over nutrition (diseases of affluence) respectively. So, the correct option is 'True'.
Which of the following contains good food?
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Roti only
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Balanced diet
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Food from market
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None of the above
- Good food means a healthy diet. The balanced diet is a healthy diet as it contains all the necessary components of food required for a healthy body. It provides energy and strength to the body.
Maintaining health is possible, if _______ is maintained.
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Height
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Weight
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Diet
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All of the above
- An important way to maintain your personal health is to have a healthy diet. A healthy diet includes a variety of plant-based and animal-based foods that provide nutrients to your body.
- Such nutrients give you energy and keep your body running. Nutrients help build and strengthen bones, muscles, and tendons and also regulate body processes (i.e., blood pressure).
- Physical exercise enhances or maintains physical fitness and sleep is an essential component to maintaining health. In children, sleep is also vital for growth and development.
The food we consume is considered to be a part of our
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Diet
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Life
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Both A and B
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Nutrients
In nutrition, diet is the sum of food consumed by a person or other organism. Dietary habits are the habitual decisions an individual or culture makes when choosing what foods to eat. The word diet often implies the use of specific intake of nutrition for health or weight management reasons.
What is acrosomal reaction?
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Contact of sperms with egg
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Digestion of zona pellucida
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Disintegration of acrosome
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Contact of acrosome and nucleus of egg
Our stomach is located
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In the head
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In the left side of the body
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In the right side of the body
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Below the abdomen
- The stomach is a muscular organ located on the left side of the upper abdomen.
- The stomach receives food from the oesophagus.
- As food reaches the end of the oesophagus, it enters the stomach through a muscular valve called the lower oesophagal sphincter.
- The stomach secretes acid and enzymes that digest food. Hence, our stomach is located on the left side of the body.
In which animal both intracellular and intercellular digestion occurs
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Hydra
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Earthworm
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Nematode
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Paramecium
Choose the correct answer from the allternatives given.
Which part of the digestive system secretes peritrophic membrane around the food in cockroach?
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Crop
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Gizzard
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Hepatic caecae
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Mesenteron
Answer C: Hepatic Caecae
Find out phenotypic categories in following cross :
A - AaBbCC $\times$ aa BBCc
B - Gg Rr Tt $\times$ gg rr TT
C - aabbCC $\times$ AA BB cc
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(A) 2 (B) 4 (C) 1
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(A) 2 (B) 2 (C) 2
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(A) 2 (B) 3 (C) 1
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(A) 3 (B) 2 (C) 2
The phenotype of an organism is the composite of the organisms observable characters, A has 2 observable characters, B shows 4 characters, while C shows 3.